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Kidney Overview
What is colloid osmotic pressure ...,
What are the three pressures that...,
Why do we measure urea
21  cards
Anatomy, Embryology, and Imaging of the Kidney
Average length of a human kidney ...,
What are the top bottom left and ...,
About how much kidney function mu...
36  cards
Renal Histology and Cell Bio
Main function of the loop of henle,
If you see glomeruli what layer o...,
Main functions of the distal conv...
33  cards
Body Fluid Spaces
What is effective vascular volume...,
What s a significant determinant ...,
Approximately what percent of tot...
23  cards
Renal Blood Flow and GFR
What does re absorption refer to,
What s ultrafiltration,
What does secretion refer to
40  cards
Proximal Tube Transport
Review 2 types of gradients that ...,
4 things that make solutes move a...,
Do tight junctions play a role in...
30  cards
Distal Tube Transport
Do thin limbs of the loop of henl...,
3 things that are at higher conce...,
What are the permeabilities to wa...
30  cards
Water Balance and Handling
In the loops of henle what s the ...,
3 things you need to have a count...,
Why is the countercurrent multipl...
13  cards
Sodium Balance and Transport
Where in the nephron does the hor...,
In the first 3rd of the proximal ...,
Where in the pt is most cl reabso...
19  cards
Hyponatremia
Formula for calculated plasma osm...,
Basic cause of hyponatremia,
Formula for calculated tonicity
27  cards
Hypernatremia
Review formula for calculated pla...,
Review formula for plasma osmolality,
2 basic characteristics of hypern...
33  cards
Diuretics
Are most diuretics more dependent...,
4 main sites of sodium reabsorpti...,
Which class of diuretics targets ...
30  cards
Acid-Base Buffering
Henderson hasselbach solved for ph,
Review normal plasma ph normal in...,
Nit picking difference between ac...
29  cards
Potassium Balance and Renal Transport
Say you eat a bunch of k why does...,
Normal plasma k,
Can cells better buffer a k defic...
20  cards
Metabolic Acidosis
What s the anion gap,
4 types of cause of metabolic aci...,
What s a normal anion gap
31  cards
Hyperkalemia
4 causes of pseudohyperkalemia th...,
Hyperkalemia is bad,
Is excessive k intake alone a com...
15  cards
Hypokalemia
What are the 2 most important way...,
Roughly what percentage of k is s...,
Is it possible to get hypokalemia...
28  cards
Metabolic Alkalosis
Why does vomiting produce alkalosis,
When encountering a patient with ...,
Why isn t the bicarb produced fro...
12  cards
Respiratory Acid-Base Disorders
Review normal ph hco3 and pco2,
What affect do hyperventilation a...,
When pco2 goes down how will bica...
12  cards
Phosphate Physio and Disorders
Normal plasma phosphate,
It s really hard to have a low ph...,
Main 2 ways the body gets rid of ...
35  cards
Calcium and Magnesium Physio and Disorders
Where is most calcium in your body,
Is calcium more in ecf or icf,
Why is 40 of plasma ca not ultraf...
70  cards
Nephrolithiasis
What do metabolic activity and an...,
Do people normally get fevers whe...,
4 most common types of kidney stones
30  cards
Clinical Syndromes Overview
Pretty much everything in this lecture is going to come up again...
30  cards
Renal Gross Anatomy and Pathology
What does chronic kidney disease ...,
What is the normal surface of the...,
Scars in the renal cortex are sug...
26  cards
Glomerular Structure and Function
Review when looking at the capill...,
Review how does charge affect the...,
What function do nephrin containi...
13  cards
Inflammatory Glomerular Disease
5 histologic ish stages of the re...,
4 aspects of nephritic clinical s...,
3 mechanisms for glomerular capil...
32  cards
Non-inflammatory Glomerular Disease
4 complications of nephrotic synd...,
4 aspects that define a nephrotic...,
4 compartments to look at when an...
20  cards
Diabetic Nephropathy
2 major clinical manifestations o...,
3 characteristic structural chang...,
The 4 clinical stages of diabetic...
21  cards
Acute Kidney Injury
Major parameters by which acute k...,
3 broad types of cause of aki,
Which part of the kidney is best ...
21  cards
Tubulointerstitial Pathology
What s a simple way to distinguis...,
Can the tubular epithelial cells ...,
H e of a ain caused by drug toxin
22  cards
Renal Vascular Pathology
3 htn related kidney vascular dis...,
3 main categories of vascular dis...,
Why is benign nephrosclerosis cal...
38  cards
Renovascular Hypertension
2 main causes of renal artery ste...,
What is renovascular disease is i...,
How does location of occlusive le...
23  cards
Kidney Malignancies
Most common renal cancer in adult...,
Where are urothelial neoplasms,
Most common renal cancer in children
35  cards
CKD - Epi, Path, and Progression
What s the arbitrary time cutoff ...,
3 things to be done when a patien...,
Common glomerular pathology assoc...
11  cards
Pathophys of CKD
What s the key concept about how ...,
Say you have 2 twin brothers one ...,
3 theories about why gfr progress...
19  cards
Uremia
Ways in which the gi system is af...,
Simplest definition of uremia,
How is anemia caused by uremia ch...
24  cards
Dialysis
Dialysis has a lot of problems as...,
2 major types of dialysis,
2 main tasks to be accomplished i...
15  cards
Renal Transplant Immunobiology
Both cytotoxic t lymphocytes ctls...,
Why is it significant that hla ge...,
Which hla loci are actually match...
31  cards
Kidney Transplantation
How long does it take for the rel...,
Do people with diabetes mellitus ...,
How does age effect increases in ...
15  cards
Hereditary Kidney Disease
3 types of hereditary kidney disease,
Most common renal cystic disease,
What kinds of symptoms does adpkd...
35  cards

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