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Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Causes of Acute ... Kidney Injury ( ... • Inflammatory disease ... Urethral stricture/valves ... /phimosis #Diagnosis
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
Acute Liver Injury ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Vascular Causes ... extrahepatic source - Tests ... #algorithm #hepatology
Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
Pathophysiology:
 • Defect in fetal free fatty acid metabolism products →
Acute Fatty Liver ... acid metabolism products ... , vomiting, abdominal ... pain, headache, ... Liver #Pregnancy #hepatology
TTP - Laboratory Evaluation for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Activity of von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease activity - A
activity - A low value ... hallmark for the disease ... If the value is ... low, tests to detect ... Fibrin degradation products
Blood Product Transfusions One Pager Summary
Type and screen - determines blood type and detects in recipient
indirect Coombs test ... - Acute Hemolytic ... : Fever, flank pain ... Lung Injury (TRALI ... #Transfusions #diagnosis
Polycythemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Polycythemia itself isn’t a diagnosis. Like many things, it is a condition
that a one-off value ... - Some tumors produce ... about secondary causes ... As with many disease ... Best to have an
Blood Transfusion Reactions

Immune Mediated:
 • Febrile Non-Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction (FNHTR): Most common immune reaction to transfusion.
Acute Hemolytic ... : Fever, flank pain ... Transfusion Related Acute ... Lung Injury (TRALI ... #Transfusion #diagnosis
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
to bolus these values ... presentations and disease ... liver or renal injury ... tests before beginning ... peritonitis - Acute
Uncommon Causes of Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema (NCPE) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

High Altitude Pulmonary Edema:
 • Accumulation
- Differential Diagnosis ... Traumatic brain injury ... nervous system injury ... administration of a blood product ... crackles, chest pain
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis ... caused by the protozoan ... , rectum 80%) (abdominal ... pain, chronic constipation ... - check Acute