Renal Hormones
Renal Failure
Renal Disorders
Renal Disorders
Mixed Bag
100
released by the kidneys to stimulate bone marrow to produce red blood cells
What is erhtropoeitin?
100
Prerenal, intrarenal, posrenal
What are the three types of acute renal failure?
100

microvascular complication of diabetes that impacts the kidneys.

What is diabetic nephropathy?

100

Removal of kidney for renal cancer.

What is nephrectomy?

100

Lab value that indicated renal impairment and is produced from the breakdown of muscle and proteins.

What is the serum creatinine?

200
Assists in blood pressure control through the stimulation of the angiotensin-aldosterone system
What is renin?
200
Renal failure caused by poor blood flow to the kidneys
What is prerenal acute renal failure?
200

Underlying causes of AKI.

What is reduced perfusion, kidney damage, or obstructed urine flow?

200

bacterial infection that causes fever, chills, tachycardia, tachypnea, loin pain, flank pain, nausea, vomiting and frequency

What is pyelonephritis?

200

Imaging studies of the renal system.

What is ultrasound, KUB (kidney, ureter, bladder), IV Pyelography (IVP), CT, MRI, •Cystography and cystourethrography, Cystoscopy/Cystourethroscopy, and renal scan?

300
Hormone released by the kidneys to promote the absorption of calcium in the GI tract
What is Activated vitamin D?
300
10L/day of dilute urine, occurs 2-6 weeks after oliguric stage and when tubular renal function is re-established.
What is the Diruetic phases of ARF?
300

Impacts to the kidneys in older adults.

What are hormonal, functional, vascular, and polypharmacy?

300
Inherited disorder in which fluid filled cysts develop in the nephrons.
What is polycystic kidney disease?
300
Antibiotics, chemotherapy agents, Ibuprofen, cyclosporine, Metformin, Lisonopril and radiographic contrast dye
What are nephrotoxic substances?
400
Released by the posterior pituitary gland to stimulate the kidneys to concentrate urine through maximizing reabsorption
What is ADH (anti-diuretic hormone also known as vasopressin)?
400

Onset phase, oliguric phase, diuretic phase and recovery phase.

What are the stages of AKI (acute kidney injury)?

400

Signs of urinary tract infection in older adults?

What are changes to LOC, nausea, dysuria, urgency?

400

Urinary tract obstruction, renal calculi, tumors, BPH, urinary strictures, and blood clots.

What are postrenal causes of AKI?

400

Biggest risk of peritoneal dialysis.

What is peritonitis?

500

Measures the effectiveness of the kidneys in excreting nitrogen (by-product of protein breakdown in the liver).

What BUN (blood urea nitrogen)?

500
100-400 ml/24 hr of urine output, lasts 1-3 weeks, and does not respond to fluid challenges or diuretics.
What is the oliguric phase of ARF?
500

Classic triad for renal cancer.

What is flank mass, flank pain, and hematuria?

500

Medical management for AKI.

What are remove underlying causes, diuretics, diet, correct fluid and electrolyte imbalances, and dialysis?

500

Explain the 2 types of dialysis.

What is hemodialysis where patients have a graft or shunt, and blood is run through dialyzer to remove toxins and peritoneal dialysis where dialysate is instilled in the peritoneal cavity and then removed to rid toxins?

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