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Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
- Classification ... vasculitis - TTP/HUS ... tubular necrosis (causes ... nephritis (AIN) ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... (AKI) - Differential ... Distributive Shock, HRS ... Differential #Diagnosis #nephrology ... #causes #algorithm
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
Causes of Acute ... (AKI) - Acute increase ... in creatinine by ... #Nephrology #Differential ... #Causes
Etiologies of Peripheral Neuropathy
 • Metabolic / Nutritional: DiabetesB12 deficiency, Uremia/ESRD, Hypothyroidism
 • Medication-induced: ART, Antibiotics,
• Inflammatory/AI ... syndrome, myeloma, secondary ... Fabry's disease, Acute ... differential #diagnosis #causes ... #neurology
Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS)

Definition:
• Functional, potentially reversible kidney impairment.
• Occurs in advanced liver disease: cirrhosis, severe alcoholic
hepatitis, or acute ... Classification: ... HRS-AKI (formerly ... HRS-Non-AKI (formerly ... Syndrome #Hepatology #Nephrology
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
recurrentis on Peripheral ... settings with crowding ... Pediculus humanus, AKA ... of blood smear, acute ... often experience acute
Diagnostic algorithm for differentiating vestibular neuritis from stroke in patients with AVS. This sequence of testing
HINTS testing has ... In one study, adding ... disposition, even if the cause ... is peripheral. ... physician; AVS, acute