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Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
) What to ask ... - Urinalysis/microscopy ... protein/Cr - Renal ... #Nephrology #Diagnosis ... Algorithm #Causes #Differential
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Diagnosis Baseline ... dipstick, urine microscopy ... Abdominal compartment syndrome ... syndrome: troponin ... #Diagnosis #nephrology
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
Hematuria - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... urine sediment Microscopic ... urine sediment by microscopy ... #Hematuria #Differential
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
) - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... at least 50% Renal ... • Hepatorenal syndromes ... polyangiitis /microscopic
Causes of Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Syndrome of Inappropriate ADH - Euvolemic; no physiologic stimulus to
Hyponatremia - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Pulmonary pathology ... GI losses • Renal ... • Reduced GFR, AKI
Causes of Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Syndrome of Inappropriate ADH - Euvolemic; no physiologic stimulus to
Hyponatremia - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Pulmonary pathology ... GI losses • Renal ... • Reduced GFR, AKI
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
symptomatology Differential ... Diagnosis for Pulmonary ... Renal Syndromes ... polyangiitis, Microscopic ... #Syndrome #differential
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
polyangiitis), MPA (microscopic ... : (AKI, proteinuria ... coagulopathy) • CBC w differential ... : • U/A: microscopic ... #Syndromes #differential
Urinary Casts and Disease Associations
Hyaline - May be nonspecific; seen in normal individuals or during severe
tubulointerstitial nephritis, renal ... Fatty - Nephrotic syndrome ... Urinary #Casts #Differential ... #Microscopy #Diagnosis
Inflammatory Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Monoarticular
 • Gout (Podagra, Tophi)
 • Pseudogout
 • Early
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Sicca) Syndrome ... polyangiitis (GPA)/microscopic ... Inflammatory #JointPain #MSK ... #Differential #