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Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... - TTP/HUS • Glomerular ... disease - Post-infectious ... Tubulointerstitial disease ... #Kidney #Injury
Elevated Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

LDH is a cytoplasmic enzyme present in tissues throughout
LDH) - Differential ... Spherocytosis, sickle cell disease ... • Legionnaires disease ... or particular disease ... #Elevated #differential
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Skin, glomeruli ... : glomerular ischemia ... (Granulomatous disease ... atherosclerotic disease ... most important diseases
Causes of Hyperkalemia
l. Pseudohyperkalemia
  A Cellular efflux; thrombocytosis, erythrocytosis, leukocytosis, in vitro hemolysis
  B.
Tubulointerstitial diseases ... Chronic kidney disease ... Chronic kidney disease ... disease 3. ... Acute oliguric kidney
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
papilledema, heart failure ... kidney injury). ... bruit or signs ... Coarctation of aorta, Vasculitis ... disease: CKD, acute
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... Systemic rheumatic diseases ... atherosclerotic disease ... most important diseases ... : Non-glomerular