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Management of Pediatric Kidney Stones
Acute Managment:
 • Pain relief: NSAIDs, opioids
 • Facilitating passage of stone:
• Try retrieve stone ... strainer: send for stone ... ELECTIVE: - Stone ... Stent: < 2 cm stone ... URS: Ureteric stone
Kidney stone type, corresponding urine sediment, urinary risk factors, and associated clinical settings.
#Diagnosis #Nephrology #Urine #Microscopy
Kidney stone type ... #Diagnosis #Nephrology ... Urinary #Kidney #Stones
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
calcium-containing stones ... X-rays useful tor stone ... - Better tor ureteropelvic ... ureteric and renal stones ... Combines calcific stone
Causes of Urinary Tract Obstruction - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Upper Tract - Bladder NOT distended on ultrasound,
Obstruction - Differential ... carcinoma - Stone ... Intramural • Ureteropelvic ... • Bladder stone ... #UrinaryTract #Differential
Causes of Biliary Dilatation - Differential Diagnosis
 • Physiological: ↑ Age, Cholecystectomy, Opioid dependence, Post-sphincterotomy
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Biliary Dilatation - Differential ... diverticulum, AUPBD • Stones ... : Biliary stone( ... Dilatation #causes #differential
Causes of Nephrolithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Radio-opaque - Calcium-containing - 90% of stones
Radiolucent - Non-calcium 10%
Nephrolithiasis - Differential ... Uric Acid Stones ... - 10% of stones ... Nephrolithiasis #Nephrology ... #Differential #
UPJ Stone on Sagittal Bladder POCUS

4th grade female with right mid abdominal pain.  Brought from
UPJ Stone on Sagittal ... Robert Jones @RJonesSonoEM ... #UPJ #Ureteropelvic ... #junction #Stone
Urine Microscopy - Kidney Stones and Crystals 

Uric Acid, Cystine, Hippurate, Cloth Fiber, Tyrosine, CaOx, CaP,
Microscopy - Kidney Stones ... Identification #Differential ... Diagnosis #Clinical #Stones ... #Key #Nephrology
Cushing's Reflex - Pathophysiology
HYPERTENSION with a reflex BRADYCARDIA
 → ↑ ICP 
 → ↓ CBF
 →
→ ↑ Vasomotor tone ... Pathophysiology #neurology
Scarf Sign (Normal) on Physical Exam

The scarf sign is used to assess developmental age and muscle
age and muscle tone ... infant with normal tone ... hypotonic #peds #pediatrics ... #tone #normal