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1
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What HF drug will result in gynecomastia?

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Spironolactone - similar structure to steroid

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What drug can be added onto a HF regimen to improve survival?

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Spironolactone

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How does IL-2 suppress tumours?

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Enhancing T cell and NK cell activity

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What part of the kidney reabsorbs the most water?

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Proximal tubule

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5
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People with upper motor neuron lesions have what kind of bladder?

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Hypertonic bladder

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Where does uric acid precipitate in the renal tubules and why?

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Collecting ducts, b/c of low urine pH

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How are particles filtered in the glomeruli?

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By size (fenestrated capillaries) and by charge (heparan sulfate in the BM)

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How do you calculate renal clearance?

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Cx = Ux*V/Px

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How do you calculate filtered load?

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Filtered load = GFR x Px

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How do you calculate excreted load?

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Excreted load = Ux * V

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11
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What is the Potter Sequence?

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Pulmonary hypoplasia
Oligohydramnios
Twisted face
Twisted skin
Extremity defects
Renal failure in utero
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12
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If one baby has a dysplastic kidney, what’s the risk of subsequent children having one as well?

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Relatively low, not inherited.

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13
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If a newborn has the Potter sequence, what condition do you suspect?

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ARPKD

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14
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If a newborn has signs and sx of portal HTN, what condition do you think of?

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ARPKD

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If patient presents with fam hx of renal failure and death from brain hemorrhage/renal failure, what condition do you think of?

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ADPKD

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How do you differentiate prerenal from renal acute kidney injury?

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BUN:creatinine ratio goes up in prerenal, down in renal.

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17
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How does the BUN:creatinine ratio change in early and late postrenal kidney injury?

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Rises then falls as tubules get damaged.

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If a patient with AKI has oxalate crystals in their urine, what do you think of?

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Ethylene glycol poisoning leading to nephrotoxic (vs ischemic) ATN

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Patient with fever, rash, hematuria, and eosinophils on urine. Dx?

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Acute Interstitial Nephritis

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20
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Minimal change disease is associated with what other disease?

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Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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21
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What are the risk factors for FSGS?

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Heroin use, sickle cell disease, HIV infxn

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22
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FSGS is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in what kinds of people?

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Black and Hispanic

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Membranous is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in what kinds of people?

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Caucasian adults

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24
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Minimal change disease is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in what kinds of people?

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Children

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25
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What kind of nephrotic and nephritic syndromes do SLE patients present with?

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Membranous nephropathy, Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis

26
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Granular immunofluorescence points towards what kind of nephropathy?

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Membranous nephropathy b/c it signifies immune complex deposition

27
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What does tram track appearance on PAS stain point towards?

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

28
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What is Type I membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with?

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HCV
HBV
Tram track

29
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What is Type II membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with?

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C3 nephritic factor, which stabilizes C3 convertase, decreases C3 levels

30
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What is the first change in the kidneys in diabetes?

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Non enzymatic glycosylation of the GBM

31
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What feature in the kidneys is pathognomonic for diabetes?

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Kimmelstiel Wilson lesions

32
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What defines nephritogenic strains of group A strep?

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M protein virulence factor

33
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Subepithelial hump in EM. Dx?

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Poststrep GN

34
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Periorbital edema, cola-coloured urine, HTN. Dx?

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Poststrep GN

35
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In RPGN, what are the crescents on biopsy made up of?

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Fibrin and macrophages

36
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Patient presents with hematuria, hemoptysis, and have RPGN with sinusitis. Dx?

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Wegener’s granulomatosis (w/ +ve c-ANCA)

37
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Patient presents with hematuria, hemoptysis, and have RPGN. Dx?

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Goodpasture’s Syndrome

38
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Patient presents with isolated hematuria, sensory hearing loss and eye problems with positive fam hx. Dx?

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Alport syndrome.

39
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What kind of stone typically develops from an ammonium Mg phosphate stone?

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Staghorn calculi

40
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What is important to exclude with hypercalciuria?

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Hypercalcemia

41
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What does being on dialysis in end stage renal failure increase the risk of?

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RCC

42
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What are angiomyolipomas associated with?

A

Tuberous sclerosis

43
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What is the triad associated with RCC?

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Hematuria
Palpable mass
Flank pain

44
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What paraneoplastic syndromes are associated with RCC?

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ACTH (Cushing’s)
Epo (2ndary polycythemia)
PTHrP
Renin (HTN)

45
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What do you think of if you see a left-sided varicocele?

A

RCC

46
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Pathogenesis of RCC involves loss of what gene?

A

VHL on chromosome 3

47
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What is the key component of Wilms tumour?

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Blastema

48
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What are the risk factors for urothelial carcinoma?

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Smoking (Naphthylamine and polycyclic aromatic HCs)
Azo dyes
Long term cyclophosphamide and phenacetin

49
Q

Flat urothelial carcinomas are associated with…

A

Early p53 mutations

50
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Middle Eastern male presents with painless hematuria. Dx?

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Squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder secondary to schistosoma infection

51
Q

What kind of cancer with urachal remnants?

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Bladder adenocarcinoma on the dome of the bladder

52
Q

Patients with angiomyolipomas also have what findings?

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Brain hamartomas and ash-leaf skin patches as a result of tuberous sclerosis

53
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Calcium kidney stones typically lead to what Ca levels in blood and urine?

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Normocalcemia, hypercalciuria

54
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What are important factors to check in the differential of metabolic alkalosis?

A

Volume status and urine chloride

55
Q

What drug should you check for before giving ACEi and why?

A

Thiaizide or loop diuretics b/c of potential first dose hTN

56
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How do you calculate net filtration pressure?

A

(Hydrostatic of Glomerulus - Hydrostatic of Bowman) - (Oncotic of Glomerulus - Oncotic of Bowman)

57
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A man treated for sinusitis with ampicillin later presents with oliguria, rash, fever. What does he have?

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AIN

58
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What cells are Epo released from?

A

Interstitial cells of peritubular capillary bed

59
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Why does the BUN rise in prerenal AKI?

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Because kidneys reabsorb H2O, Na, and BUN to raise volume

60
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How do you prevent Ca stones from precipitating?

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By adding citrate

61
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What does ANCA stand for?

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Anti neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies

62
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What kidney disease is MPLAR-2 associated with?

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Membranous nephropathy

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