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Table of Causes of Acute Liver Injury
#Diagnosis #Hepatology #Acute #Liver #Injury #Causes #Differential #Incidence #Table #Failure
Table of Causes ... of Acute Liver Injury ... #Acute #Liver #Injury ... #Causes #Differential ... Incidence #Table #Failure
Kidney Syndromes - A Guide to Compartmentalize the Etiologies of Kidney Disease
1) Tubule and interstitium
2) Vasculature
3)
Differential #Diagnosis #Causes ... #Failure #Injury
Myocardial Injury Classification
Chronic myocardial injury: Chronic heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertension, CKD/ESRD
Acute nonischemic myocardial injury:
 - Primary
Myocardial Injury ... Chronic myocardial injury ... Chronic heart failure ... cardiomyopathy, Acute heart failure ... infarction: Respiratory failure
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Causes of Acute ... Kidney Injury ( ... perfusion: • Cardiac failure ... Acute #Kidney #Injury ... Prerenal #Postrenal #Failure
Causes of Failure to Thrive
 - Inadequate intake 
 - Inadequate retention 
 - Malabsorption
Causes of Failure ... Malabsorption - Failure ... FailureToThrive #FTT #Causes
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... Dehydration • Heart failure ... syndrome) • Liver failure ... tubular necrosis (causes ... Acute #Kidney #Injury
Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure - Differential Diagnosis Framework
DECREASED INSPIRED OXYGEN
 • Low PATM Can decrease first part
Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure ... gas equation • Causes ... to neurologic injury ... hypoxemic respiratory failure ... #Respiratory #Failure
Causes of acute heart failure
 - Acute pressure overload (increased afterload, mechanical flow obstruction) 
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Causes of acute ... heart failure - ... #Acute #Heart #Failure ... #Differential #Causes
Flapping tremors of Asterixis

DDx
- Decompensated cirrhosis or acute liver failure.
- Renal failure /azotemia.
- Respiratory failure with
or acute liver failure ... - Renal failure ... - Respiratory failure ... hyperammonemia #PhysicalExam
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) Clinical Guidelines

ACLF = possibly reversible condition in those with CLD (± cirrhosis)
multiple organ failure ... Lung Failure ... Circulation Failure ... Kidney Failure ... Drug-Induced Liver Injury