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Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Artery Stenosis, Abdominal ... Emboli, Thrombosis, Vasculitis ... #AKI #Acute #Kidney
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Polyarteritis Nodosa: - Kidneys ... - GI tract: abdominal ... Supply gut -> abdominal ... Kidneys -> glomerulonephritis
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... and Differential Diagnosis ... Glomerulonephritis / Vasculits ... biopsy • Abdominal ... #Differential #Diagnosis
IgA Vasculitis – Henoch Scholein Purpura: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 - Infectious Agents - 50% have
IgA Vasculitis – ... 85%) - Colicky abdominal ... Intussusception - Renal ... arthritis (especially knees ... Pathophysiology #Diagnosis
Causes of Cystic Renal Mass - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign - Anechoic on ultrasound, Well-demarcated on ultrasound/CT,
Causes of Cystic Renal ... - Differential Diagnosis ... , Normal sized kidneys ... • Polycystic Kidney ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Adrenal hematoma/hemorrhage on FAST exam

Adult male with RUQ/side pain after MVC. Transient prehospital hypotension.  Has
Adrenal hematoma ... Diagnosis/differential ... cephalad to the right kidney ... No other intra-abdominal ... trauma #clinical #ultrasound
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
radiation dose Ultrasound ... causes of flank or abdominal ... pain: diagnoses ... scan) when an ultrasound ... #Kidney #stones
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Diagnosis Framework ... pulmonary and renal ... musculoskeletal systems • Kidneys ... multiplex • GI tract: Abdominal ... gut involvement, abdominal
Organomegaly
 • Liver
 • Spleen
 • Kidneys (e. g. Cyst, Cystic Renal Cell Carcinoma, Hydronephrosis)
Neoplastic
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• Spleen • Kidneys ... Cyst, Cystic Renal ... • Vascular (Abdominal ... Pseudocyst #Abdominal ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Perinephric fluid on POCUS

Differential Diagnosis: Calyceal rupture due to obstruction (eg, ureteral stone, crossing vessels, compression
Differential Diagnosis ... cyst rupture (usually ... pyelonephritis, & renal ... #fluid #POCUS #ultrasound ... #renal #kidney