Kidney
Creatinine is not affected by which of the following: muscle mass, diet, glomerular filtration rate.
What is diet?
Both of these are needed to diagnose diabetes mellitus
What is elevated blood glucose AND glucosuria?
What is alkalosis?
BONUS What is the normal blood pH?
These urinary crystals form when a pet ingests antifreeze.
What are calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals?
BONUS What do they look like?
What is 30-60 minutes?
This species can occasionally go into diabetic remission.
What is a cat?
This is a common cause of decreased chloride.
What is vomiting OR hemolysis?
When Creatine Kinase and AST are elevated, this value helps to determine whether the cause is a muscle injury or a liver injury.
What is ALT?
If you let a blood tube sit at room temperature, this value decreases by 10% per hour.
What is glucose?
This chemistry value is most important/valuable when looking at kidney function
What is SDMA?
This hormone causes hyperglycemia AND stimulates insulin release
What is glucagon?
When this ratio is DECREASED, there must be a suspicion of Addison's disease.
What is Na/K ratio?
BONUS what number is the cut off for concern?
This organ is often not represented on our routine labwork
What is the GI tract?
BONUS What are blood tests you could do for the GI tract?
The principal end product of amino acid breakdown and the principal end product of muscle breakdown
What is Urea and Creatinine respectively?
This is the test that you run to determine if the protein in urine is significant or not.
What is a UPC?
Bonus if you know what the normal value is in a dog.
This test represents the irreversible reaction of glucose bound to protein
What is fructosamine?
BONUS Glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) represents the irreversible reaction of glucose to ...?
In the body, the majority of phosphorus and calcium are found here.
What is bone?
This gland produces ACTH.
What is the pituitary gland?
BONUS What does the adrenal gland produce?
Elevated BUN and Crea are not enough to state that a pet has kidney dysfunction. You need this as well.
What is a low specific gravity?
BONUS: What are the 3 types of azotemia and how do you differentiate them?
Name all of the components used for IRIS kidney staging
What is Crea, SDMA, Blood Pressure, and UPC?
These two parts make up the pancreas
What is exocrine and endocrine pancreas?
BONUS - name the components of the exocrine (3) and endocrine pancreas (4) and what they do.
Respiratory alkalosis can occur when a pet is breathing like this.
What is HYPERventilate (increased breathing)?
BONUS Which buffer system works quicker respiratory or renal?
This test can diagnose either Addison's or Cushing's but another test is only used to diagnose Cushing's disease. (2 answers)
What is ACTH stim test and LDDS/HDDS test respectively?
This hormone is secreted by the kidney to increase production of red blood cells.
What is erythropoietin?