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Approach to Acid Base Disorders - Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
1) Start with the Anion Gap (AG).
2)
the chronicity (acute ... , chronic, or acute ... Acidosis: GI loss ... Alkalosis: GI loss ... Neuromuscular Disease
Hypochloremia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Cause - Decreased Intake:
 • Low salt in diet
 • Exclusive D5W
Hypochloremia - Differential ... Increased Loss: • GI ... unloading • Kidney ... secretion • Acid-base ... Pathophysiology #Nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Patients with Cancer 

Cancer Related 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Intravenous contrast 
•
Acute Kidney Injury ... LC deposition disease ... Cancer #Oncology #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Classification ... #Nephrology
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acid Base Disorders ... Acute or chronic ... Compensation, Acute ... restrictive lung disease ... Diagnosis #Summary #Nephrology
Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
Guide to Acute Kidney ... - CPK, uric acid ... - Pre-renal disease ... AcuteKidneyInjury #AKI #Nephrology ... Algorithm #Causes #Differential
Causes of High-anion Gap and Non-anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis
Causes of High-anion Gap Acidosis:
 • Lactic acidosis
Renal failure (acute ... Chronic progressive kidney ... disease Ill. ... #Acidosis #differential ... diagnosis #causes #nephrology
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
resistance • Metabolic ... Bumetanide, Ethacrynic acid ... Torsemide) • Acute ... hyperaldosteronism • Acute ... Excretion #Diuresis #Nephrology
Metabolic Causes of Kidney Stones in Children
 • Calcium Oxalate: Primary Hyperoxaluria type 1-3, Secondary Hyperoxaluria
Metabolic Causes ... type A/B • Uric Acid ... Syndrome), Dent's disease ... Stones #pediatrics #nephrology ... #differential #
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Classification: ... • Acute cutaneous ... permanent alopecia Differential ... pericardial/abd GI ... C4) • ds-DNA: Kidney
Causes of Hyperkalemia
l. Pseudohyperkalemia
  A Cellular efflux; thrombocytosis, erythrocytosis, leukocytosis, in vitro hemolysis
  B.
E-aminocaproic acid ... Chronic kidney disease ... Chronic kidney disease ... Acute oliguric kidney ... #Hyperkalemia #Differential