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Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Common Patterns on Urinalysis
 - Prerenal
 - ATN
 - AIN
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Acute Kidney Injury ... Syndrome - Nephritic ... AKI #Urinalysis #diagnosis ... #table #comparison ... #nephrology
Urinary Casts and Disease Associations
Hyaline - May be nonspecific; seen in normal individuals or during severe
Urinary Casts and Disease ... and concentrated urine ... casts are seen in acute ... broad - Advanced kidney ... Differential #Microscopy #Diagnosis
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... - AKI Workup Algorithm ... and Differential Diagnosis ... • Interstitial nephritis ... #nephrology #causes
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... causes: sepsis, meds ... interstitial nephritis ... Classification #diagnosis ... #nephrology
Lupus Nephritis - Diagnostic approach to kidney disease associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
SLE patient develops
- Diagnostic approach ... to kidney disease ... urine sediment ... Disease (5%) ... #sle #nephrology
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Interstitial nephritis ... • Inflammatory disease ... /phimosis #Diagnosis ... #Acute #Kidney ... #Differential #Nephrology
Urine Microscopy - Casts
Acellular Casts
 • Hyaline Casts - Consists of only precipitated Tamm-Horsfell protein without
and chronic kidney ... diseases • Fatty ... suggestive of nephrotic ... #Microscopy #nephrology ... interpretation #diagnosis
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Kidney Injury AKI ... - Differential Diagnosis ... • Primary GNs: Disease ... Interstitial Nephritis ... #nephrology
Workup for Hyperphosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Rule out spurious hyperphosphatemia: paraproteinemia, hyperlipidemia, hemolysis, hyperbilirubinemia, liposomal amphotericin
- Differential Diagnosis ... t-PA, heparin Acute ... acidosis, DKA Kidney ... Disease: • AKI ... #phosphate #nephrology
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? 
Is there a dialysis indication
Kidney Injury ( ... Urinary obstruction, Nephrotoxic ... IMPROVEMENT If the urine ... KidneyInjury #simplified #workup ... #diagnosis #nephrology