Renal Disease notes
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This Renal Disease notes page on GoConqr gathers user-made notes on acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, renal masses and dialysis. The university-level and professional material is for university students and professional candidates practising these topics, and teachers looking for material to share. Explore over 10 notes and pick a topic to start.
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- Kidney Function Tests and Urinalysis25
- Hematuria and Urinary Abnormalities17
- Glomerular Diseases30
- Nephrotic and Nephritic Syndromes40
- Glomerulonephritis32
- Diabetic and Vascular Kidney Disease18
- Tubular and Interstitial Kidney Diseases11
- Urinary Tract Infections and Obstruction16
- Inherited Kidney Diseases15
- Kidney Tumors and Renal Cell Carcinoma8
- Acute Kidney Injury103
- Chronic Kidney Disease94
- Kidney Failure and Azotemia45
- Dialysis and Renal Replacement Therapy13
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Acute Kidney Injury
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Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) - created from Mind Map Implementation (American Kidney Fund, 2019;Bonner, et al., 2014, Lewis et al., 2014) Diagnosis (Lewis et al., 2014) Outcome/Planning
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Oliguria Defined as urine less than 300mL per day or less than 20mL / hrAnuria: less than 50mL - 100 mL per day(bilateral artery occlusion)Reflects volume filtered and reabsorbed. Not a good indicator of kidney disease Causes ...
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Kidney Scenarios Acute kidney injury Rapid reduction in renal function In humans GFR decreased, increased creatine, reduction in urine output AKI and AKIN Causes Decreased renal perfusion Decreased CO Heart failure S...
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Untitled Acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis Group A streptococcal infection Urinalysis: Macroscopic hematuria PRoteinuria RBC casts Granular casts Other ASO titer Antigroup A streptococcal enzymes Rapidly progressing g...
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Case study - renal papillary necrosis DEHYDRATION = HIGH HR, low cap refill time, dark pink mucous membranes (seen in infection - systemic inflammation) blood - most sig = low total protein proteins could be lost through gut/protein = not enough coming in...
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Advanced Pathophysiology Acute Pyelonephritis Pyelonephritis is an infection of one or both upper urinary tracts (ureter, renal pelvis, and kidney interstitium). Common causes are summarized in Table 39.4. Urinary obstruction and reflux of ur...
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Dialysis
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Chronic Kidney Disease
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Renal Masses Benign renal tumors: Papillary adenoma oncocytoma Mesoblastic nephroma multilocular cystic nephroma metanephric adenoma Malignant renal tumors: Clear cell Papillary (Type 1 and Type II) Chromophobe Collecting duct car...
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An Investigation into the pathology of chronic and acute renal disease - created from Mind Map Chronic renal disease Acute renal disease Treatments
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Swaps & Dominos - created from Mind Map Renal Failure Dialysis Transplant Living, related donor Cadaveric (Dead) Donor Subset of patients: have family donor, no match 400/year Large waiting list 40/year Solution? Swap betn pairs Still some patient remain Le...
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Enter text here - created from Mind Map Build up of toxic waste from kidneys Decreased glomerular filtration Uremia
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Chronic Kidney Disease - created from Mind Map
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These notes offer different ways into the unit. Acute Kidney Injury opens with a definition and causes, while Chronic Kidney Disease covers definitions and evidence of kidney damage. Renal Masses lists benign and malignant tumours. Other notes focus on oliguria, dialysis and kidney scenarios.
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Yes. Dialysis discusses the aims of dialysis and options including haemodialysis. Renal Masses lists benign and malignant renal tumours. The page also includes notes on oliguria, kidney scenarios and chronic kidney disease, so you can select the topic you want to review.