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Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome ... a.k.a. hepatorenal syndrome ... disease - Acute ... tubular necrosis
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
Causes of Acute ... Injury (AKI) - Acute ... • Hepatorenal syndromes ... Tubular Necrosis ... • Pigments Tubular
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Patients with Cancer 

Cancer Related 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Intravenous contrast 
•
Acute Kidney Injury ... Capillary leak syndrome ... • Tumor lysis syndrome ... • Proximal tubular ... cyclophosphamide) #Acute
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Common causes of Acute ... inhibitors, hepatorenal syndrome ... Tubular Injury/ ... Drugs • Toxins Acute ... #AKI #causes #Acute
Urinary Casts and Disease Associations
Hyaline - May be nonspecific; seen in normal individuals or during severe
casts are seen in acute ... tubular necrosis ... Fatty - Nephrotic syndrome
Causes of Metabolic Alkalosis: Differential Diagnosis
ECF volume contracted: urine chloride concentration <20 meq/L
 • Gastric alkalosis:
postchronic hypercapnia (acute ... diuretics after renal tubule ... Severe Cushing syndrome ... Congenital AME syndrome ... indicates a renal tubule
Causes of Hypokalemia
Transcellular Shifts:
 - Alkalosis, Increased plasma insulin (treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis), ß-Adrenergic agonists, Hypokalemic
tobacco, Renal tubular ... diuresis, Bartter's syndrome ... use), Gitelman's syndrome ... excess and related syndromes ... Hypomagnesemia, Acute
Localization of Renal Tubular Defects
Fanconi Syndrome: Proximal tubule
Bartter Syndrome: Thick ascending loop of Henle
Gitelman Syndrome: Distal
Localization of Renal Tubular ... : Proximal tubule ... Bartter Syndrome ... Distal convoluted tubule ... : Collecting tubule
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acute or chronic ... Compensation, Acute ... D-lactate (short bowel syndrome ... Diarrhea - Renal tubular
Inherited Defects in Kidney Tubule Epithelial Cells

Renal glucosuria - Na+-dependent glucose cotransporter
Cystinuria - Amino acid transporter
Bartter
Defects in Kidney Tubule ... limb Gitelman syndrome ... distal convoluted tubule ... Liddle syndrome ... Distal renal tubular