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Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
- Urinalysis/microscopy ... protein/Cr - Renal ... - 45% - Pre-renal ... disease — 21% ... #Nephrology #Diagnosis
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Patients with Cancer 

Cancer Related 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Intravenous contrast 
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Kidney Injury (AKI ... LC deposition disease ... gammopathy of renal ... Minimal change disease ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Kidney Syndromes - A Guide to Compartmentalize the Etiologies of Kidney Disease
1) Tubule and interstitium
2) Vasculature
3)
Kidney Syndromes ... Etiologies of Kidney Disease ... galindozip #Renal ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... Failure #Injury #AKI
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
and Differential Diagnosis ... dipstick, urine microscopy ... Abdominal compartment syndrome ... syndrome: troponin ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS) - Diagnostic Criteria
HRS-AKI (Acute: previously known as HRS Type 1)
 • ↑ Creatinine
Hepatorenal Syndrome ... (HRS) - Diagnostic ... Criteria HRS-AKI ... haematuria, Normal renal ... #diagnosis #HRSAKI
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
Pulmonary Renal ... Syndrome Definition ... Differential Diagnosis ... polyangiitis, Microscopic ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
- Differential Diagnosis ... basement membrane disease ... - Alport syndrome ... pain hematuria syndrome ... of glomerular disease
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
- Differential Diagnosis ... at least 50% Renal ... • Hepatorenal syndromes ... polyangiitis /microscopic ... Sjögren) Post-Renal
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Kidney Injury AKI ... - Differential Diagnosis ... inhibitors, hepatorenal syndrome ... thromboembolism, renal ... • Primary GNs: Disease
Summary of characteristic abnormalities of selected glomerular diseases
Light Microscopy (LM) - Immunofluorescence Microscopy (IM) - Electron
selected glomerular diseases ... Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome ... Nephrotic syndrome ... pathology #comparison #table ... #diagnosis #microscopy