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Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Low Magnesium, High Magnesium - Functional Hypoparathyroidism
 • High
Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential ... Hyperphosphatemia, Acute ... Pancreatitis, Sepsis ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #nephrology ... #calcium
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... Algorithm and Differential ... ultrasonography, serum calcium ... cardiac imaging #Acute ... #Diagnosis #nephrology
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
 • Redistribution: IV glucose, Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis, IV hyperalimentation, Refeeding after starvation,
Causes of Hypomagnesemia ... after starvation, Acute ... sweating, burns, sepsis ... #Causes #differential ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Causes of Hypocalcemia - Differential Diagnosis
Decreased calcium absorption
 • Vitamin D deficiency
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Hypocalcemia - Differential ... Diagnosis Decreased calcium ... Miscellaneous • Sepsis ... • Acute pancreatitis ... Diagnosis #Causes #endocrinology
Metabolic Causes of Kidney Stones in Children
 • Calcium Oxalate: Primary Hyperoxaluria type 1-3, Secondary Hyperoxaluria
Metabolic Causes ... in Children • Calcium ... hypercalciuria, Familial Hypomagnesemia ... Stones #pediatrics #nephrology ... #differential #
Causes of Metabolic Alkalosis: Differential Diagnosis
ECF volume contracted: urine chloride concentration <20 meq/L
 • Gastric alkalosis:
Alkalosis: Differential ... postchronic hypercapnia (acute ... deficiency • Milk (calcium ... #Alkalosis #Differential ... Diagnosis #Causes #nephrology
Gitelman Syndrome Overview

What?
• Inherited (AR) hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies affecting the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter
• Gitelman's syndrome
Metabolic alkalosis ... Hypochloremic metabolic ... Hypocalciuria (spot urine, calcium-creatinine ... ratio 0.5%) Differential ... Syndrome #diagnosis #nephrology
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Eclampsia, Infection/Sepsis ... Neurological symptoms: Acute ... Reversible course Differential ... Drug toxicity, Metabolic ... syndrome, ADEM, Acute
Differential Diagnosis: New-Onset Seizure in the Elderly

STRUCTURAL:
 • Stroke/TIA, Subdural hematoma, mass
 • Traumatic Brain Injury
Differential Diagnosis ... Injury (TBI) - Acute ... METABOLIC - Electrolyte ... Brain abscess • Sepsis ... #Differential #Diagnosis