Dr. Gerald Diaz @GeraldMD
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Kidney Syndromes - A Guide to Compartmentalize the Etiologies of Kidney Disease
1) Tubule and interstitium
2) Vasculature
3)
Kidney Syndromes ... Etiologies of Kidney ... #Syndromes #Differential ... Diagnosis #Causes #Failure ... #Injury #AKI
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 β€’ Dehydration
 β€’ Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 β€’ Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome ... ) β€’ Liver failure ... a.k.a. hepatorenal syndrome ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 β€’ Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... (AKI) - Differential ... Abdominal Compartment Syndrome ... #Injury #Differential ... #Diagnosis #nephrology
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 β€’ Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
causes of Acute Kidney ... Injury AKI - Differential ... HEMODYNAMIC β€’ Cardiac failure ... inhibitors, hepatorenal syndrome ... #Diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... Abdominal compartment syndrome ... β€’ Cardio-renal syndrome ... imaging #Acute #Kidney ... #Injury #AKI #Workup
Prevention and Treatment of Nutritional Complications after Bariatric Surgery
Types of Bariatric Surgery:
 β€’ Adjustable Gastric Banding
Switch (BPD-DS) Management ... Bariatric Intestinal Failure ... Surgery: β€’ Dumping Syndrome ... Hypoglycemia β€’ Kidney ... #Deficiencies #Gastroenterology
Outpatient Hypertension Management Algorithm
Monotherapy: 
 β€’ Thiazide/thiazide-like 
 β€’ ACE-I (non-black patients), 
 β€’ ARB
Outpatient Hypertension Management ... Left Ventricular Failure ... Acute Coronary Syndrome ... β€’ Acute Kidney ... Injury β€’ Pre-Eclampsia
Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unprovoked - Epilepsy:
 β€’ Focal: Simple, Complex
 β€’ Generalized: Absence,
of Seizures - Differential ... vasoconstriction syndrome ... Traumatic brain injury ... Uremia, Liver failure ... Algorithm #Causes #neurology
Urine Specific Gravity - Interpretation
Specific Gravity = Density of urine / Density of water
SG close to
1.010: β€’ Advanced kidney ... failure SG close ... Dehydration β€’ SIADH (syndrome ... Interpretation #diagnosis #differential ... #nephrology
Metabolic Alkalosis - Urinary Chloride Algorithm
Cl- responsive metabolic alkalosis
 β€’ Kidney loss of Cl-
diuretic use, Bartter syndrome ... , Gitelman syndrome ... settings, the urine sodium ... the excretion of sodium ... #differential #