Urinary and Renal Embryology: Wilson: Video Flashcards
What mesoderm gives rise to GU?
Intermediate
What does the intermediate mesoderm become?
Urogenital ridge
What part of the urogenital ridge do the gonads derive from?
Medial and central part of UG ridge
What is the first sign of the kidney? When?
Pronephros: First few days of the forth week. No filtration occurs.
What is the first kidney that functions?
Mesonephros
What are the two components of the mesonephros?
Nephron
Mesonephric duct
How long does the mesonephros function?
5th to 9th week, actually filters blood and excretes
What is the final kidney that remains in body?
Metanephros: begins to function in 2nd trimester
What is another name for the mesonephric duct?
Woffian Duct: becomes gonads
When does final kidney develop?
8th or 9th week, begining of the second trimester
What remains of the mesonephros?
Mesonephric duct (nephron subsides)
What fuses to make the metanephros?
Uteric bud
Metanephric blastema
What is the most common newborn defect of kidney?
Renal Agenesis:
Absence of kidney on one side
Due to lack of fusion of uteric bud and metanephric blastema
What does the uteric bud form?
Drainage system: Collecting tubules Calyces Pelvis Ureter
What is the most common abnormality of the uteric bud?
- Double ureter
- Bifrucated ureter
- Ectopic ureter
What is the most concerning uteric bud abnormality? Female? Male?
Ectopic ureter: INCONTINENCE Female: Into vagina Into urethra Into vestibule Male: Into prostate Into neck of bladder
What does the metanephic blastema form?
Nephron
What are the most common renal developmental abnormalities?
Unilateral renal agenesis
Unilateral hypoplastic kidney
Super numary kidneys
Polycystic kidney disease
What happens in gonenital polycystic kidney disease?
instead of forming collecting ducts, forms cysts
What is most threatening kidney disease?
Polycystic kidney disease:
progressive cysts of collecting ducts
Renal failure early after birth
Also, BILATERAL agenesis
What happens in bilateral renal a genesis?
Potter phenotype: uterus compresses fetus
What is potter phenotype?
Oligohydramnios: low amniotic fluid
Facial deformities: Flat face/ears
Club hand
Hypoplastic lung (bilateral, compressed)
What is the main cause of OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS?
Bilateral renal agenesis
What is the position changes of the kidneys?
Pelvis up to to L3/L4:
lower part of the trunk goes down as kidneys stay at the same place…