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Kidney Syndromes - A Guide to Compartmentalize the Etiologies of Kidney Disease
1) Tubule and interstitium
2) Vasculature
3)
Kidney Syndromes ... galindozip #Renal ... #Kidney #Syndromes ... #Causes #Failure ... #Injury #AKI
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
•
Injury ( AKI ) ... - Prerenal, Renal ... Postrenal PRE-RENAL ... Vascular occlusion RENAL ... Infection POST-RENAL
Hypertension and Altered Mental Status (AMS) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Hypertension:
 • Hypertensive emergency
 • Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Differential Diagnosis ... Pre-Eclampsia Renal ... Acute/Chronic renal ... failureRenal ... • Scleroderma renal
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Pre-Renal: • Hypovolemia ... Hypercalcemia, Renal ... Abdominal Compartment Syndrome ... Medications Intra-Renal ... Autoimmune Post-Renal
Causes of Generalized Edema - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Overfill (Increased renal sodium retention, Urine Na > 40meq/L)
Algorithm Overfill ... (Increased renal ... • NSAlDs • AKI ... • Right heart failure ... pericarditis • Portal hypertension
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
Algorithm Acute ... Kidney Injury ( ... at least 50% Renal ... • Hepatorenal syndromes ... Sjögren) Post-Renal
Primary and Secondary Causes of Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Primary (Essential) (95%) - Onset between age
Medications - Renal ... • Renal parenchymal ... disease - CKD, AKI ... and bilateral renal ... excess (Cushing syndrome
Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
Guide to Acute Kidney ... protein/Cr - Renal ... - 45% - Pre-renal ... mostly ATN and pre-renal ... #Algorithm #Causes
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
• Cardiac failure ... inhibitors, hepatorenal syndrome ... thromboembolism, renal ... tumors INTRINSINC RENAL ... • Prolonged hypotension
Secondary Causes of Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hypertension - BP > 140/90 (>130/80 for DM)
Hypertensive urgency
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Hypertension ... multi-drug resistance) Renal ... • AKI/CKD Mineralocorticoid ... #Algorithm #Causes