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Differential Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury 

#Diagnosis #Nephrology #AKI #Acute #KidneyInjury #Causes #Differential #Workup #Algorithm #Ddxof
of Acute Kidney ... Injury #Diagnosis ... #Nephrology #AKI ... #Causes #Differential ... #Workup #Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... - AKI Workup Algorithm ... and Differential Diagnosis ... osmolarity If cause ... #AKI #Workup #Algorithm
Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
Guide to Acute Kidney ... Injury (AKI) ... What to ask/look ... #Nephrology #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #Causes
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
EGPA) • Renal: (AKI ... quantify renal injury ... anti-GBM) Other tests ... or serologies + symptoms ... Goodpasture's cause
Uncommon Causes of Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema (NCPE) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

High Altitude Pulmonary Edema:
 • Accumulation
- Differential Diagnosis ... - Dyspnea at rest ... Traumatic brain injury ... nervous system injury ... of acute respiratory
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Chronic inflammation causes ... bronchial wall injury ... inflammation Symptoms ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... mycobacteria Treatment
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
GrepMed Handbook Acute ... Imaging (if atypical symptoms ... CNS inflammatory cause ... prevent corneal injury ... #Management #Treatment
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
liver or renal injury ... tests before beginning ... treatment. ... pulmonary edema ... peritonitis - Acute
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
cytotoxic lung injury ... starting amiodarone treatment ... gradually with symptoms ... Exclude other causes ... Improvement in symptoms
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
Similar symptoms ... Assc symptoms include ... Specific organ injury ... LBRF can be diagnosed ... of blood smear, acute