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Kidney Syndromes - A Guide to Compartmentalize the Etiologies of Kidney Disease
1) Tubule and interstitium
2) Vasculature
3)
Vasculature 3) Glomerulus ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Causes ... #Failure #Injury ... #AKI
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... ) • Liver failure ... - TTP/HUS • Glomerular ... tubular necrosis (causes ... Classification #diagnosis
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
or dipstick) Glomerular ... of Glomerular Bleeding ... of glomerular hematuria ... Suggestive of glomerular ... #Diagnosis #causes
Causes of Urinary Incontinence - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 - Transient - Easily reversible cause (DIAPPERS)
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Incontinence - Failure ... disease, cauda ... equina syndrome, ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Causes of Pleural Effusion - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Transudate - Hydrostatic
 • Congestive heart failure
 • Constrictive
Effusion - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Congestive heart failure ... • Postcardiac injury ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure - Differential Diagnosis Framework
DECREASED INSPIRED OXYGEN
 • Low PATM Can decrease first part
- Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... to neurologic injury ... Interstitial lung diseases ... #Diagnosis #pulmonary
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
(DAH) & renal failure ... EGPA) • Renal: (AKI ... quantify renal injury ... Goodpasture's cause ... hypercellular glomeruli
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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Insufficiency, Liver Failure ... Medications, Spinal Cord ... Injury Low CO ... , Severe Valve Disease ... • Obstructive: Pulmonary
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Diagnosis Framework ... - Liver failure ... Collapse: • Pathophysiology ... → Syncope • Signs ... #diagnosis #causes
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
• Symptoms and signs ... Causes: 1. ... Sarcoidosis, Behcet disease ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome ... #algorithm