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Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... Artery Stenosis, Abdominal ... Pigment, Protein) • AIN ... #AKI #Acute #Kidney ... Diagnosis #nephrology #causes
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... genitourinary causes ... dysfunction • PSC ... Cardiopulmonary disease/AMI ... wall painAbdominal
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... - Classification ... tubular necrosis (causes ... interstitial nephritis (AIN ... tract infection • Medications
Shock - Differential Diagnosis by Classification
Reflex Syncope 
 - Vasovagal syncope
   • Prolonged standing
Differential Diagnosis by Classification ... draw • Severe pain ... depletion - Medication ... Alcohol blackout - Medication ... #Table #Causes
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
stones caused by ... Postoperative abdominal ... distention • Abdominal ... #Pharmacology #Medications ... #Table
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
obstruction - Able ... of flank or abdominal ... pain: diagnoses ... for non-calculus causes ... Calculi #Renal #Kidney
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management Summary

Causes of Rhabdomyolysis:
 • Trauma:
	- Immobilization
	- Crush injury
	- Compartment
Management Summary Causes ... symptoms: - Muscle pain ... Tachycardia - N/V - Abdominal ... pain Labs: ... nephrotoxicity to kidney
Intraabdominal hypertension is defined as elevated pressure without overt organ failure (table below).  Among critically
organ failure (table ... more common than abdominal ... failure, it may cause ... particularly to the kidneys ... #IAH #Grades #Classification
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
tract, and often causes ... - GI tract: abdominal ... Supply gut -> abdominal ... Kidneys -> glomerulonephritis ... #rheumatology #classification
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Skin Disease Classification ... Arthritis: • Joint pain ... C4) • ds-DNA: Kidney ... induced SLE • Kidney ... activation and/or medications