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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 ( ... Small-vessel vasculitis ... #Injury #Prerenal ... #Postrenal #Failure
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... Emboli, Thrombosis, Vasculitis ... GN: ANCA, Anti-GBM ... #AKI #Acute #Kidney ... Diagnosis #nephrology #causes
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... Dehydration • Heart failure ... - Small vessel vasculitis ... tubular necrosis (causes ... : sepsis, meds,
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... osmolarity If cause ... Glomerulonephritis / Vasculits ... ANCA, ANA, Anti-GBM ... #Injury #AKI #Workup
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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pulmonary and renal ... tract, and often causes ... mucositis - Rash ... Kidneys -> glomerulonephritis ... • Urinalysis (Renal
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis ... failure (glomerulonephritis ... palpable purpura 2/2 vasculitis ... injury), Coags ... Goodpasture's cause
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
papilledema, heart failure ... disturbance, or acute kidney ... injury). 6. ... Coarctation of aorta, Vasculitis ... Renal parenchymal
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
pulmonary and renal ... musculoskeletal systems • Kidneys ... , mucositis • Rash ... tract, and often causes ... pain and GN Anti-GBM
Clinical Trial of Fluid Infusion Rates for Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis - Kupperman et al. NEJM 2018

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1716816
Study
NEJM 2018 https ... of brain injury ... start trying to figure ... TessaRDavis #EBM ... VisualAbstract #Peds