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Causes of acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI is classified into pre-renal, renal, and post-renal causes. Renal
Causes of acute ... pre-renal, renal, and ... glomerular, tubular, and ... Kidney #Injury #Differential ... #Sites #Nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Kidney Injury - Classification ... - Hypertensive emergency ... tubular necrosis (causes ... prolonged prerenal AKI ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Kidney Injury - AKI ... Differential Diagnosis ... osmolarity If cause ... #Diagnosis #nephrology ... #causes
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? 
Is there a dialysis indication
Kidney Injury (AKI ... EMERGENCY? ... require urgent nephrology ... CONSIDER INTRINSIC CAUSES ... workup #diagnosis #nephrology
Uveitis - Definition, Causes and SUN Classification

Inflammation of the iris, ciliary body, vitreous, retina and/or choroid
Incidence
and SUN Classification ... blindness, linked to macular ... #SUN #Classification ... #Differential # ... Ophthalmology #Rheumatology
Guide to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

What to ask/look for: 
 - HPI, PMH, full ROS
rhabdo/TLS) Causes ... 13% (mostly ATN and ... #Nephrology #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #Causes ... #Differential
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Kidney Injury (AKI ... ) - Differential ... Vasculitis • GN: ANCA ... #Diagnosis #nephrology ... #causes #algorithm
Critical and Emergent Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
CRITICAL DIAGNOSES 
 - Cerebral cortex or subcortical 
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Critical and Emergent ... Causes of Neuromuscular ... - Muscle EMERGENT ... Neuromuscular #Weakness #Differential ... #Neurology #Causes
Secondary Causes of Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hypertension - BP > 140/90 (>130/80 for DM)
Hypertensive urgency
Hypertension - Differential ... Hypertensive urgency or emergency ... (any visit), Hypertension ... Nephritic syndrome • AKI ... HTN #Secondary #Nephrology
Headache Etiologies and Associated Spectrum of Severity of Disease by System
Critical, Emergent and Non-Emergent Causes
CNS, neurologic,
and Non-Emergent ... Causes CNS, neurologic ... vascular disease Ocular ... #differential # ... diagnosis #neurology