Week 5 Flashcards
- What are the phases of drug discovery and development (3) - describe each
- Discovery phase - bench scientific inquiry into drug targets and associated compounds
- PreClinical Phase - testing in animals, used to establish safety profile
- Clinical Phase - testing in humans, used to establish important characteristics of drug compound
What are the phases of clinical phase? (4)
- Phase I: non-blind / single dose (Ia) or repeated dose (Ib) in healthy volunteers / small # of subjects
- Phase II: single-blind or double blind / patients with target disease / moderate # of subjects
- Phase III: double-blind / patients with target disease / large # of subjects (1 - 4 years)
- Phase IV: post-approval, monitors drug safety / outcomes in the general population
- What is urine sedimentation useful for?
- visualize urinary analytes after centrifuging urine such as RBC, WBC, epithelial cells
what does it mean if you see these things in urine sedimentation?
- RBC - normal shape
- RBC - deformed shape
- WBC
- Tubular epithelial cells - excessive number
- Tubular epithelial cells - Oval Fat Body
- long differential like UTI, Stones, etc - but outside of glomeruli
- Glomerular disease
- suggests infection
- tubular damage
- epithelial cell laden with lipids creating the maltese cross- NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
RBC Casts
- What does it look like? (choose out of the following images)
- What does this mean?
- indicates glomerulonephritis (inflammation and damage to glomerulus) or hypertensive emergency
WBC Casts
- What does it look like? (choose out of the following images)
- What does this mean? (3)
- indicates tubulointerstitial inflammation (inflammation that affects the tubules of the kidneys and the tissues that surround them (interstitial tissue)
- Acute pyelonephritis - a bacterial infection causing inflammation of the kidneys
- Transplant rejection
Granular Casts
- What does it look like? (choose out of the following images)
- What does this mean?
- acute tubular necrosis (ATN)
Fatty Casts
- What does it look like? (choose out of the following images)
- What does this mean?
- indicates Nephrotic syndrome (assoc. with maltese cross)
Hyaline Casts
- What does it look like? (choose out of the following images)
- What does this mean?
- Solidification of Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein - only casts that should be seen as normal in urine sample. They can be observed after intense exercise, in very concentrated low-volume urine, or during diuretic treatment.
- very large amounts of hyaline casts can indicate renal disease
Indicate what the name of each crystal is
Indicate what the name of each crystal is?
Crystals in Urine → Calcium Oxalate
- what disorders can lead to this crystal? (3)
- IBD, malabsorption of calcium, ethylene glycol poisoning
Crystals in Urine → Cystine
- what disorders can lead to this crystal? (1)
- cystinuria
Crystals in Urine → Struvite
- what disorders can lead to this crystal?
- indicates alkaline urine pH (associated with Proteus which is a urea splitting organism)
Crystals in Urine → Uric Acid
- what disorders can lead to this crystal? (2)
- indicates uric acid stones
- Urate nephropathy (Acute uric acid nephropathy is caused by deposition of uric acid crystals within the kidney interstitium and tubules, leading to partial or complete obstruction of collecting ducts, renal pelvis, or ureter.)
Crystals in Urine → Calcium Phosphate
- what disorders can lead to this crystal?
- distal renal tubular acidosis
Crystals in Urine → Acyclovir
- what disorders can lead to this crystal?
- excessive dose of acyclovir which leads to renal dysfunction
Crystals in Urine → Ciprofloxacin/sulfa crystals
- what disorders can lead to this crystal?
- drug toxicity
Bright stones in kidney, ureter, and bladder can be seen in which type of imaging?
CT WITHOUT contrast
What type of imaging can differentiate between simple cyst and solid mass (malignant)
- CT WITHOUT contrast followed by CT WITH IV contrast
- cysts will show no change after contrast but masses will show increased density after contrast
- What is the optimal range of pH?
- What is the pH rangecompatible with life?
- Acidemia is considered pH
- Alkalemia is considered pH>?
- 7.35-7.45
- 6.8-7.8
- 7.37
- 7.43
The kidney repleneshis/controls levels of bicarbonate. It does so via reabsorption and generation
- where in the nephron does reabsorption of bicarb happen?
- where in the nephron does generation of bicarb happen?
- PCT
- Intercalated cells of collecting duct (secretion of H+ after H+ and HCO3- are made needs to be combined with urinary buffers to prevent acidic urine/nephron damages → where HPO42- or NH3 comes in)
both lead to bicarb going into interstitium
W/ bicarb generation - bicarb is absorbed into interstitium but this is paired with H+ secretion into lumen. This makes the urine acidic but this is where HPO42- and NH3 act like buffers.
- Which one is more readily available/limited?
- How is NH3 made?
- HPO42- is a fixed supply based on how much P is in diet
- NH3 - generated from gluatamine so there is an adaptable supply - this is the predominant form of acid excretion
- Where is ammonium generated?
- Where is ammonium reabsorbed?
- Where is ammonium secreted?
- Ammonium Generation: proximal tubule, divides glutamine into 2 NH4 / 2 HCO3 -
- Ammonium Reabsorption: thick ascending limb via NH4 + / Na + / 2 Cl - channel
- Ammonium Secretion: type A intercalated cells, used to carry H + out of the body
describe if these are respiratory/metabolic acidosis or respiratory/metabolic alkalosis
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List some of the reasons for respiratory acidosis, metabolic acidosis*, respiratory alkalosis, or metabolic alkalosis
- Metabolic acidosis - you need to check anion gap to further determine causes
Equation for anion gap?
- Anion Gap = Na – (Cl + HCO3-)
- you get values from your electrolyte panel/CBC
What is considered a
- high anion gap - what does this mean?
- normal anion gap
- >12 → this means that there is excessive H+
- 9-12
You have metabolic acidosis -
- What are the causes based on high anion gap
- What are the causes based on normal anion gap
- What are the compensation mechanisms of these 4 scenarios (respiratory acidosis, metabolic acidosis, respiratory alkalosis, or metabolic alkalosis)
How does levels of CO2 affect pH?
Remember the bicarbonate buffer system equation.
- With increase in CO2 → there is greater presence of H+ (decrease pH) (remember eqn wants to be in balance)
- When there is decrease in CO2 → there is less H+ (increase pH)
- What are mixed acid-base disorders?
- what patient stats can indicate this disorder? (2)
- two simultaneous metabolic/respiratory disturbances
- extreme pH deviation OR Pco2/HCO3- deviations with normal pH indicate possible mixed disorder
What is compensation vs correction of pH?
- Compensation is restoring pH to normal → will get close to normal pH
- Correction means pH is restored to normal due to correction of underlying disorder
What are the steps when determining what disorders are within mixed acid-base disorders?
- if initial label of pt is respiratory acidosis or respiratory alkalosis (5)
- see if its acidic or alkalosis by looking at pH
- Determine if this acidosis/alkalosis is due to respiratory or metabolic reasons
- determine if scenario is acute or chronic by looking at changes in Pco2 and how it goes along with patient changes in pH and HCO3- → this will tell you if patient has metabolic alkalosis or metabolic acidosis on top of original acid/base disturbance
- Metabolic alkalosis (nothing further after this)
- Metabolic acidosis → various steps
What are the steps when determining what disorders are within mixed acid-base disorders?
- if initial label of pt is metabolic acidosis (7)
- determine if there is or is not an anion gap
- if normal then non-AG metabolic acidosis → which can be caused by renal or gut issue
- Determining between renal or gut issue → you need to do Urine anion gap (UAG)
- Also do winters formula to determine if there is an additional resp. acidosis or resp. alkalosis
- (back to #2) - if there IS a larger anion gap then think MUDPILES as differential and calculate delta gap
- w/delta gap → if pts HCO3- > delta gap HCO3 then you also have metabolic alkalosis
- w/delta gap → if pts HCO3- < delta gap HCO3 then you also have NON-AG METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
What are the steps when determining what disorders are within mixed acid-base disorders?
- if initial label of pt is metabolic alkalosis
- nothing further in algorithm just check if chloride sensitive or resistant
- <10 is sensitive