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Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
- Urine Na/K/Cl ... /urea/protein/Cr ... related) - Glomerulonephritis ... #Nephrology #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #Causes
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Kidney Injury (AKI ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Medicine @SCVMCMed #AKI ... #nephrology #causes ... #algorithm
Interpreting Kidney Biomarkers

↑ Creatinine: 
 • AKI, CKD
 • Medications that lead to nephroprotective ↓ in
Creatinine: • AKI ... , CKD • Medications ... secretion of Cr ... #diagnosis #laboratory ... #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Workup Algorithm ... and Differential Diagnosis ... and signs • Glomerulonephritis ... #Workup #Algorithm ... #nephrology #causes
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Acute ... at least 50% Renal ... Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis ... #KidneyInjury #Nephrology
Hypokalemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Transcellular Shift:
 • Alkalosis
 • ↑ beta-2 adrenergic simulation 
 • Erythropoiesis
- Differential Diagnosis ... Thyrotoxicosis Medications ... Renal Losses ... dementia, starvation, TPN ... #Algorithm #nephrology
Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (MPGN) AKA: Mesangiocapillary GN
 • Active Urine Sediment (dysmorphic RBC, RBC casts, +/- proteinuria)
Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis ... (MPGN) AKA: Mesangiocapillary ... microangiopathy (TMA ... #MPGN #nephrology ... #diagnosis #renal
Drug Induced Kidney Injury
 • Pre-Renal: NSAIDS, CNI, ACEI/ARB, IL-2 therapy, Diuretics CAR-T therapy
 • Osmotic
Injury • Pre-Renal ... therapy, Diuretics CAR-T ... #differential #diagnosis ... #algorithm #nephrology ... #Medications
Primary and Secondary Causes of Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Primary (Essential) (95%) - Onset between age
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Primary ... licorice • Medications ... disease - CKD, AKI ... , Glomerulonephritis
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
failure (glomerulonephritis ... : (AKI, proteinuria ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... progressive (crescentic) glomerulonephritis ... #differential #diagnosis