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Decks in this class (31)

1. Disorders of Potassium Balance
What are the points of regulation...,
What mediators affect the cellula...,
How do insulin and catecholamines...
26  cards
2. Disorders of Sodium Balance
What is pseudohyponatraemia,
What is the lowest possible osmol...,
What is the highest possible osmo...
21  cards
3. Acid-Base Disorders
What can be used to buffer dietary h,
What severe effects can a low ph ...,
How is metabolic respiratory acid...
18  cards
4. Renal Histology and Physiology
What is the most common cause of ...,
What are the histological regions...,
What are mesangial cells
21  cards
5. Infective and Inflammatory Tubulo-Interstitial Kidney Diseases
How can acute pyelonephritis be s...,
What is chronic pyelonephritis,
What can be seen on histology in ...
32  cards
6. Glomerular Causes of Haematuria
What are the systemic causes of h...,
What are the renal causes of haem...,
What is the most common cause of ...
13  cards
7. Rapidly Progressive Renal Failure
What is nephrotic syndrome,
What are the clinical features of...,
What causes hypercholesterolaemia...
29  cards
8. Neoplasms of the Kidney
What is chronic renal failure,
What are the clinical signs of ch...,
What are the benign tumours of th...
24  cards
9. UTIs
What factors play a role in the p...,
What host factors can predispose ...,
What tract abnormalities can pred...
24  cards
10. Calcium Metabolism and Disorders of Calcium Balance
Why is calcium absorption in the ...,
What happens to the calcium that ...,
What form is calcium stored as in...
46  cards
11. Diuretics
Name a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor,
Why are carbonic anhydrase inhibi...,
How do carbonic anhydrase inhibit...
23  cards
12. Acute Kidney Failure
What 3 things are used to measure...,
What are the limitations of creat...,
What are the pre renal causes of ...
16  cards
13. Chronic Kidney Disease
What is stage 1 of chronic kidney...,
What is stage 2 of chronic kidney...,
What is stage 3 of chronic kidney...
14  cards
14. a. Prostate Pathology
What are the 3 forms of prostatitis,
What causes bacterial prostatitis,
What is granulomatous prostatitis
19  cards
14. b. Testes, Penis and Scrotum
What is cryptorchidism,
Give an example of a genetic caus...,
What complications are associated...
24  cards
15. Vulva, Vagina, Cervix
What is a bartholin cyst,
What is leukoplakia,
What are the causes of leukoplaki...
30  cards
16. Uterus
Why is oestrogen more associated ...,
What are the causes of endometritis,
What histiologic finding is diagn...
23  cards
17. Fallopian Tubes and Ovary
What is an ectopic pregnancy,
What factors increase the risk of...,
What benign neoplasms can be foun...
32  cards
18. Diabetes Mellitus 1
How is diabetes diagnosed,
How is blood glucose most accurat...,
What is hba1c
14  cards
19. Diabetes Mellitus 2
What factors can precipitate dka,
What are the symptoms of dka,
What are the criteria for dka
21  cards
20. Pituitary and Thyroid Pathology
What is the anterior lobe of the ...,
Where does the anterior lobe of t...,
What is the other name for the po...
55  cards
21. Adrenal and Parathyroid Pathology
What is the most common cause of ...,
What are the adrenal causes of cu...,
What are the paraneoplastic cause...
36  cards
22. Pharmacology of Diabetes Mellitus
What are the options for insulin ...,
What are the methods of deliverin...,
How is the amount of insulin requ...
32  cards
23. STDs
What pathogen causes syphilis,
How long is the incubation period...,
What are symptoms of primary syph...
35  cards
24. Pituitary and Adrenal disease
How can pituitary function be ass...,
What does the insulin tolerance t...,
What are the contraindications fo...
13  cards
25. Thyroid Disorders
What is the most sensitive marker...,
What is subclinical hypothyroidism,
When should subclinical hypothyro...
17  cards
26. Renal and Bladder Tumours
What are the benign tumours of th...,
What are the malignant tumours of...,
What are the risk factors for rcc
27  cards
27. Prostate and Testicular Cancer
What are the risk factors for tes...,
What are the symptoms of testicul...,
How is testicular cancer diagnosed
13  cards
28. Pharmacological Control of Thyroid and Parathyroid
Which iodine isotope is used for ...,
What are the treatment options fo...,
What iodine isotope is used in sh...
33  cards
29. Benign Breast Disease
What is a lobe in the breast,
What is the functional unit of th...,
Describe the layers of duct and l...
42  cards
30. Breast Cancer
What factors protect against brea...,
What are the hereditary causes of...,
What other cancers are associated...
41  cards

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