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Medications causing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration: Diuretics
 • Altered intrarenal autoregulation: ACEIs / ARBs,
• Dehydration: Diuretics ... decongestants) • Any drug ... #Medications #Drugs ... #pharmacology # ... differential #diagnosis
Hyperkalemia: Diagnostic algorithm
Decreased renal potassium excretion
 • Acute renal failure
 • Chronic renal failure
 • Drugs
Increased
excretion • Acute ... renal failure • Drugs ... uropathies • Drugs ... hyperplasia • Drugs ... nephropathy • Drugs
Causes of High-anion Gap and Non-anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis
Causes of High-anion Gap Acidosis:
 • Lactic acidosis
Renal failure (acute ... Drugs II. ... Drug-induced hyperkalemia ... Potassium-sparing ... anti-inflammatory drugs
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Kidney Injury AKI ... systemic disease or drugs ... hypotension • Drugs ... Nephritis (AIN) • Drugs ... #nephrology
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
Redistribution:
 - IV glucose
 - Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis
 - IV hyperalimentation
 - Refeeding
starvation - Acute ... - Potassium depletion ... renal disease Drugs ... #medications #drugs ... #pharmacology #
Algorithm for patients with hypokalemia on the basis of the potassium-to-creatinine ratio in the urine
Urine K+
↑ Aldosterone: Kidney ... Urine Cl - Loop diuretics ... , Thiazide diuretics ... differential #algorithm #diagnosis ... #nephrology
Vancomycin Associated Acute Kidney Injury

 • Drug induced acute kidney injury is generally defined as a
Drug induced ... acute kidney injury ... 24-72 hours of drug ... Vancomycin #AKI #pharmacology ... #toxicology #diagnosis
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Prerenal:
 • Due to true volume loss or decreased
Acute Kidney Injury ... - Differential Diagnosis ... losses, hemorrhage, diuretics ... hepatorenal, sepsis • Drugs ... #nephrology
Causes of Hypocalcemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Extravascular: Pancreatitis, surgery, acute phosphate intake and renal
Pancreatitis, surgery, acute ... prostate cancer • Drug ... Hyperphosphatemia, High ... Pseudohypoparathyroidism, Chronic Kidney ... Hyperphosphatemia, Low
Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Low Magnesium, High Magnesium - Functional Hypoparathyroidism
 • High
- Differential Diagnosis ... deficiency • Drugs ... Hyperphosphatemia, Acute ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #nephrology