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Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Kidney Injury (AKI ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Distributive Shock, HRS ... Medicine @SCVMCMed #AKI ... #nephrology #causes
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
- Differential Diagnosis ... at least 50% Renal ... Ethylene glycol) TTP/HUS ... Sjögren) Post-Renal ... #Acute #KidneyInjury
Pharmacological Treatment of Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS)

Midodrine - Alpha agonist incr blood pressure incr renal perfusion pressure
Pharmacological Treatment ... Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS ... pressure incr renal ... #Management #Pharmacology ... #Medications #Treatment
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? 
Is there a dialysis indication
Kidney Injury (AKI ... Trial isotonic fluids ... you confirmed diagnosis ... #Acute #KidneyInjury ... simplified #workup #diagnosis
Classification of Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS) and Treatment of Metabolic Abnormalities of TLS
Laboratory TLS:
 • Uric
Clinical TLS: • AKI ... - Intravenous fluids ... • Renal failure ... Syndrome #TLS #diagnosis ... #management #oncology
Hepatorenal Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Who gets HRS?
 • Decompensated cirrhosis
 • Typically with existing
and Management ... a precipitant: Medications ... in HRS-AKI is vasoactive ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #treatment
BRASH Syndrome

B - Bradycardia
R - Renal failure
A - AV nodal blockade
S - Shock
H - Hyperkalemia

Typical ECG
Bradycardia R - Renal ... hyperkalemia) BRASH Treatment ... • Aggressive treatment ... BRASH #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #management #pathophysiology
Hematuria in Post-Renal Transplant Patient
Prevalence up to 12% in the postrenal transplant patient
 • Bacterial: Escherichia
Hematuria in Post-Renal ... Prostate cancer • Medications ... #differential #diagnosis ... #blood #urine #management ... #treatment #nephrology
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis and Management Summary

Trauma:
 • Immobilization, Crush iniury, Compartment syndrome, Electrical injury
Exertional:
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- Differential Diagnosis ... and Management ... Dermatomyositis) AKI ... output: 200ml/hr ... #causes #treatment
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management Summary

Causes of Rhabdomyolysis:
 • Trauma:
	- Immobilization
	- Crush injury
	- Compartment
- Differential Diagnosis ... Framework and Management ... + myoglobin AKI ... output: 200 ml/hr ... #treatment #nephrology