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Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... Diagnosis Baseline ... ultrasonography, serum calcium ... #Diagnosis #nephrology ... #causes
Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Low Magnesium, High Magnesium - Functional Hypoparathyroidism
 • High
Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Hyperphosphatemia, Acute ... Pancreatitis, Sepsis ... #nephrology #calcium
Hyperglycemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Diabetes Mellitus:
 • Impaired Glucose Tolerance
 • Type I Diabetes
 • Type
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Surgery, Burns, Sepsis ... • Shock • Acute ... #endocrinology ... #causes
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
Causes of Acute ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Urate crystals • Calcium ... #KidneyInjury #Nephrology ... #Causes
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Causes of Acute ... Cardiac failure • Sepsis ... /phimosis #Diagnosis ... Postrenal #Failure #Differential ... #Nephrology
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy ... Reversible course Differential ... syndrome, ADEM, Acute ... the underlying cause ... with AEDs until cause
Causes of Hypocalcemia by Clinical Cause

Acute illness: pancreatitis, tumor lysis, severe illness - Secondary hyperparathyroidism from
Acute illness ... low circulating calcium ... Genetic defects in calcium-sensing ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Endocrinology
Causes of Hypocalcemia - Differential Diagnosis
Decreased calcium absorption
 • Vitamin D deficiency
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Causes of Hypocalcemia ... - Differential ... • Acute pancreatitis ... #Diagnosis #Causes ... #endocrinology
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
 • Redistribution: IV glucose, Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis, IV hyperalimentation, Refeeding after starvation,
Causes of Hypomagnesemia ... after starvation, Acute ... sweating, burns, sepsis ... #differential # ... diagnosis #nephrology
Causes of Metabolic Alkalosis: Differential Diagnosis
ECF volume contracted: urine chloride concentration <20 meq/L
 • Gastric alkalosis:
Causes of Metabolic ... postchronic hypercapnia (acute ... deficiency • Milk (calcium ... #Diagnosis #Causes ... #nephrology