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Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
urinary sediment, renal ... HIV serology, renal ... eosinophiluria, renal ... markers • Cardio-renal ... NT-proBNP, cardiac imaging
Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS) - Diagnostic Criteria
HRS-AKI (Acute: previously known as HRS Type 1)
 • ↑ Creatinine
Syndrome (HRS) - Diagnostic ... haematuria, Normal renal ... ultrasound HRS-NAKI ... Type 2) • HRS-AKD ... - No other cause
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
for Renal Calculus ... renal stones ... renal stones IVP ... #Calculi #Renal ... #Kidney #stones
Causes of Cystic Renal Mass - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign - Anechoic on ultrasound, Well-demarcated on ultrasound/CT,
Causes of Cystic ... Renal Mass - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... of infection - Renal ... Carcinoma - Abscess
Diagnoses to Consider in Patients with Flank Pain and Costovertebral Angle Tenderness
Physicians should consider other disorders
abscesses, which ... gas within the kidney ... identifiable by renal ... imaging. ... Angle #Tenderness #FlankPain
Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS)

Definition:
• Functional, potentially reversible kidney impairment.
• Occurs in advanced liver disease: cirrhosis, severe alcoholic
Caused by splanchnic ... vasodilation → ↓ renal ... perfusion + ↑ renal ... • Renal vasoconstriction ... ultrasound
Peripelvic Cyst on Renal POCUS
60s f admitted with acute pyelonephritis, CT scan reveals no hydronephrosis/stone/abscess, continues
Peripelvic Cyst on Renal ... , and left renal ... retained contrast in renal ... obstruction at left renal ... Peripelvic #Cyst #Renal