Diuretics
Electrolytes
Interpret the Urine
Famous People
Fun Facts
100

Loop diuretic without sulfa component

Ethacrynic acid

100

This cells are involved in secretion of H

Alpha Intercalated Cell

100

Na: 120

Serum osmolality: 250

Urine osmolality: 85

Urine Na: 25

Please mention two causes:

Primary Polydipsia

Beer Potomania Syndrome

100

Dr. Robert Cade is famous for inventing...

Gatorade. Created in UF.

100

In a human born with 2 kidneys, if one of the kidneys is taken out, the body loses 45% of kidney function.

False. The body loses 25% of kidney function. Due to hypertrophy the remaining kidney sustain the body.

200

Hyperglycemia

Orthostatic hypotension

Hyponatremia

Hyperuricemia

Hypercalcemia

Thiazide diuretic

200

Insulin use

Vomiting

Diarrhea

Diuretic use

Bartter syndrome

What these have in common

Causes of hypokalemia
200

Na: 120

Serum Osm: 255

Urine sodium: 40

Urine Osm: 250

Euvolemic

Please mention 3 situations to have this results

SIADH

Hypothyroidism

Adrenal Insufficiency

200

This famous nephrologist has been involved in clinical trials, medical education and is famous for leading as PD in a internal Medicine program in what some call the "Harvard of Central Florida"

Dr. Abdo Asmar

200

For children born with renal agenesis (i.e. one kidney), the lone kidney grows till it has the combined weight of two.

True. Each kidney weights around 80-160 grams

300

You want to keep diurising a patient but the patient has a bicarb of 36. What diuretic can you add...

Acetazolamide. It causes a hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis.

300

AKI

Uric acid: 15

K: 5.7

Ca: 6.5

Alb: 4.0

Phos: 8

Etiology:

Tumor Lysis Syndrome

300

Co2: 18

Urine Na: 100

Urine K: 25

Urine Cl: 180

Please mention to etiologies

Proximal RTA (Type II)

Diarrhea

300

Dr. Belding Scribner, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, opened the first...

Dialysis clinic and created the first dialysis portable machine.

300

The kidneys receive more blood than all other organs except the liver.

True

400

60 yo patient with gfr of 22 comes to the clinic for BP control. His average BP is 150/85. His current medications are: Lisinopril 40mg, amlodipine 10mg, carvedilol 25mg BID and furosemide 40mg BID. Patient is euvolemic.

Would you add: clonidine, minoxidil, spironolactone, chlorthalidone or hydralazine?

Chlorthalidone

400

Initial correction of Na in a 24 hr period

4-6 mEq

400

Tell me 4 causes of red color urine

Gross hematuria

Medications

Beets

Rhabdomyolysis

400

Dr. Jean Hamburger is famous for...

For performing the first temporarily successful transplantation of a human kidney, in France, in 1953.

400

If the nephrons in the 2 kidneys are removed and laid end-to-end, they cover a distance of approximately 5 miles.

False. The distance is approximately 10 miles.

500

Maximum dose of lasix in a day

Maximum dose of metolazone for edema

600 and 20mg

500

Aldosterone causes Na to be absorbed and K to be excreted into the lumen by

Principal Cells

500

HCO2: 18

Serum K: 5.5

Urine pH: 5.0

UAG: +

Diagnosis

Type 4 RTA

500

Dr. Jayme lock is the lead transplant physician that…

transplanted a gene-edited pig’s two kidneys into the body of a person who had undergone brain death (the irreversible loss of all brain function) in a procedure designed to fully simulate clinical transplantation. Once inserted, the new kidneys sustained blood flow and even produced urine until the study ended 77 hours later.

500

 A dutch doctor used sausage casing, orange juice cans, and a washing machine to invent an "artificial kidney" that predated dialysis.


True

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