Dr. Gerald Diaz @GeraldMD
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diagnosis nephrology differential aki injury biopsy blood hematuria hyperkalemia hyponatremia hypotonic indications kidneyinjury low lupus management nephritis physiologic potassium simplified
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework Pre-Renal: • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... Pre-Renal: • Hypovolemia ... SCVMCMed #AKI #Acute ... #Kidney #Injury ... #causes #algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... - AKI Workup Algorithm ... osmolarity If cause ... #AKI #Workup #Algorithm ... #causes
Hematuria Workup and Diagnosis Algorithm • Confirm hematuria → Urinalysis >3 RBCs/HPF, exclude mimics, repeat testing
Hematuria Workup ... and Diagnosis Algorithm ... repeat testing • Acute ... if cause not identified ... #Workup #urology
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) 1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? Is there a dialysis indication
Simplified Approach to Acute ... Kidney Injury ( ... common culprits: Hypovolemia ... IMPROVEMENT If the urine ... KidneyInjury #simplified #workup
Hypokalemia Evaluation Algorithm Before evaluating hypokalemia, life threatening complications such as arrhythmias and paralysis should be looked
Algorithm Before ... differentiating kidney ... wasting from other causes ... A urine K/Cr ratio ... • Diarrhea A urine
Medications for the Treatment of Hyperkalemia The goals of acute treatment are to prevent potentially life-threatening cardiac
Medications for ... The goals of acute ... cirrhosis, or kidney ... Figure 3 is an algorithm ... , and Table 3 summarizes
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 Pragmatic diagnostic algorithm for hypokalemia. ***Typical presentations: • Vomiting: urine Na/Cl > 1.6, low urine
Pragmatic diagnostic algorithm ... Other medications ... continued in most cases ... #differential #algorithm ... #nephrology
Physiologic Approach to Hypotonic Hyponatremia The next time you have a case of hypotonic hyponatremia, give the
time you have a case ... normal volume-based algorithm ... Urine Na+K / serum ... Present (Uosm ≥100): Hypovolemia ... differential #diagnosis #table
Lupus Nephritis - Diagnostic approach to kidney disease associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) SLE patient develops
• Nephritic urine ... , WBC casts) especially ... Nephritis #diagnosis #algorithm ... #sle #nephrology ... #biopsy #indications
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