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Classification, Differential Diagnosis, and Features of Hyponatremia According to Volume Status 

Hypervolemic hypernatremia 
 - CHF
Classification, ... Acute and chronic kidney ... Drugs - SIADH Renal ... #Hyponatremia #Classification ... Differential #Diagnosis #Table
Hypokalemia - Differential Diagnosis
Poor Intake 
 - Starvation
 - Anorexia
GI Losses 
 - Vomiting / NG
Mineralocorticoid excess - Renal ... Differential #Diagnosis #Low ... #Potassium #Table ... #Classification
Hypomagnesemia - Etiologies by Mechanism

Decreased GI Uptake 
 - Poor dietary intake (particularly common in alcoholics)
diarrhea / IBD Renal ... - Familial renal ... Differential #Diagnosis #Low ... #Magnesium #Table ... #Classification
Diagnoses to Consider in Patients with Flank Pain and Costovertebral Angle Tenderness
Physicians should consider other disorders
Costovertebral Angle ... pyelonephritis (Table ... gas within the kidney ... identifiable by renal ... Costovertebral #Angle
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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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pulmonary and renal ... Polyarteritis Nodosa: - Kidneys ... Kidneys -> glomerulonephritis ... • Complement (Low ... #rheumatology #classification
Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance (MGRS)

MGRS
• MGRS refers to kidney disease caused by nephrotoxic monoclonal immunoglobulins
Gammopathy of Renal ... guide subtype classification ... Pathogenesis: How ... • Low Tumor Burden ... Monoclonal #Gammopathy #Renal
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
anti-Smith Ab, low ... Skin Disease Classification ... , lymphopenia, low ... C4) • ds-DNA: Kidney ... induced SLE • Kidney
Causes of Hyperkalemia
l. Pseudohyperkalemia
  A Cellular efflux; thrombocytosis, erythrocytosis, leukocytosis, in vitro hemolysis
  B.
Chronic kidney disease ... Chronic kidney disease ... Acute oliguric kidney ... Drug-associated: heparin, low-molecular-weight ... High #Potassium #Classification