💊Chronic Kidney Disease💊
🍇🌸Acute Kidney Disease 🌸🍇
🧟Urologic tumors 🧟
🥩🍖Proteinuria & Glomerular DX🍖🥩
🦠☣🦠Dysuria & Urinary Tract Infections🦠☣🦠
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Causes of CKD top two? and others?

idiopathic tubulointerstitial dx-most common, other big one is glomerular dx -50% of dogs

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These are some etiologies of AKI (3 big categories) 

hemodynamic/prerenal (severe hypotension, trauma, blood loss, sepsis, ANES (big one), vascular occlusion, severe hyperthermia, severe hypertension, 

intrinsic renal injury: nephrotoxins, infectious causes (lepto, pyelonephritis, FIP, lyme dx), neoplasia, acute on chronic ckd.

post renal, due to urethral obstruction or bilateral ureteral obstruction

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Clinical signs of TCC and see where anatomically? 

pollakuria, hematuria, stranguria 

trigone 

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These are the normal mechanisms the kidney has to prevent protein loss and they filter these type of proteins 

1) glomerulus filters proteins by size and charge. prevents high molecular wt. proteins from going into the urine and most of albumin.

2) proximal tubule sucks proteins back into the blood, the remaining albumin and the low molecular wt. proteins

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** Three cardinal signs of lower urinary tract dx are

pollakiuria, stranguria, hematuria 

200

List the clinical consequences seen with CKD

PU/PD (due to lose [] ability)

uremic toxins accumulation (due to decreased GFR)

anemia from low EPO

renal secondary hyperparathyroidism due to low calcitriol.

arterial hypertension which can lead to end organ damage

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Decreased GFR is associated with? and what occurs?

ischemic injury, medullary tubules are particularly suspectable. get sloughing of tubular cells (renal casts) which cause obstruction and further exacerbates reduced GFR and ischemia

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Diagnostics for TCC

imaging done

TX?

CBC, chem, urinalysis, BRAF,

cytology-to confirm diagnosis with cath up there. traumatic cath

abdominal, thoracic rads, ultrasound CR

piroxicam, chemo, radiation, photodynamic therapy, antibiotics, urethral stent 

more invasive is SX, or SX and chemo

for chemo doxubicin, cisplatin

radiation can cause colitis or urethral stricture 



200

Name some causes of pre-renal proteinuria

tubular proteinuria

glomerular proteinuria

post-renal proteinuria

1) excess plasma proteins, myoglobin from rhadomyoslsis, severe intravascular hemolysis 

2) leptospirosis, CKD, toxins, enoplasia

3)hypertension, cushings, DM, immune complex glomerulonephritis, amyloidosis, glomeruloscelerosis

4)inflammation below the collecting ducts such as infection, stones, neoplasia, renal hilus, ureter, neoplasia

200

Three types of UTI

cystitis: sporadic cystitis (simple of uncomplicated) recurrent cystitis-3 or more a year, implies a predisposing factor

prostatitis

pyelonephritis 

300

Lab findings seen with CKD

azotemia (with BUN and creatine, SDMA is better for muscle wasted animals and earlier CKD)

hyperphosphatemia (and risk of soft tissue mineralization with elevated ca)

low or high k. low k seen with cats CKD. end stage see hyperkalemia more.

metabolic acidosis (secretory from loss of bicarb in urine, titraional with accumulation of uremic toxins)

poorly [] urine

proteinuria

300
With AKI what is seen on CBC, chemistry and urinalysis?

CBC-dehydration

Chem-azotemia, hyperphosphatemia, metabolic acidosis K high or low

urinalysis- decreased USG, proteinuria (severe in GN), cylinduria, and more depending on the cause

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For urethra tumors this sx is done

urethral diversion

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This is the most common glomerular dx in dogs and some examples of them are

immune complex glomerulonephritis (ICGN) 50%

FIP, CAV-q, ehlichia, lyme,  heartworm, babesia, blasto, endocarditosis, lupus, lymphoma and more

300

Diagnosis of bacterial cystitis is made via?

TX?

urinalysis-rods. pyuria supportive.

quantitative urine culture (positive culture without clinical signs not bacterial cystitis, subclinical bacteriuria, or asymptomatic bacteriuria gen. no tx)

AB rads/ultrasound-for uroliths and tumors. CBC/chem-screen predisposing factors. 

TX: amoxillin or TMS for 3-5 days

if resistant switch to C and S results still 3-5 days.

if relapse or persistence 7-14 days for recurrent bacterial cystitis 

400
CKD diagnosis involves staging, what is staged?

-creatine

-proteinuria (based on protein:creatintine ratio [UPC] )

-hypertension

400

These are the tx goals for AKI (7)

1) restore hemodynamic stability

2) replace fluid deficit and maintain hydration

3) correct electrolyte and acid-base disturbances

4) ensure urine production

5) address underlying cause

6) supportive care

7) transition to home care 

400

50% of canine kidney tumors are while cat tumors are?

carcinomas, TCC, RCC, hemangiosarcoma, lymphosarcoma, nephroblastoma

in cats lymphoma whick like to replase to the CNS

400

These are complications of glomerular dx

Hypertension (due to Raas activation)

hypercoagulability (from loss of LMW), see clots PTE, saddle thrombus

fluid accumulation (ascites, pleural effusion, tissue edema)

PLN

nephrotic syndrome 

400

Pyelonephritisis is both a 

signs can be?

UTI and a cause of AKI

asymptomatic to life threatening. see systemic

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Tx goals of CKD and tx


goals: slow progression of CKD and manage sequelae and complications of CKD (manage hypertension, manage proteinuria, manage electrolyte imbalances etc)

TX-renal diet-protein restrict, p restrict, etc

Begin renal diet stage 3, late stage 2. but if proteinuria restrict even in stage 1.

hypertension-ace inhibitors, calcium channel blockers-amlodipine, direct vasodilator-hydalazine

TX hyperphosphatemia-phosphate binders will not work without restricition. only add in binder if lot of P

anemia if below <20%, darpepoetin or EPO

Acute on chronic-fluids, suportive care

with ckd may need fluids to maintain hydration

appetite, antiemetics 

500

What are some prognostic factors of AKI and what is one that is not

prognostic factors: oliguria, hypokalemia, hypothermia, renal histopathology (is BM intact to heal, or not)

initial severity of azotemia is not a prognostic indicator 

500

These type of tumors are seen in the prostate

diagnostic done

and can mestasis to the

TCC, adenocarcinoma

prostatic wash, mineralization on imaging

lumbar spine (bone can occur)

500

How is diagnosis of glomerular dx made?

for TX?

Dipstick/urinarlysis -screen for proteinuria (in [] urine key if above 2+, any in non [] urine) -glomerular dx only is []. if tubular extended to dilute

UPC (urine protein: creatine ratio), high the proteinuria more likely glomerular in orgin. >.5 is proteinuric

CBC-normocytic normochromic anemia, thrombocytosis

Chem-hypoalbuminemia, azotemia/high P, hyperlipidemia

BP-hyptension common

infectious dx screening

advanced diagnostics to look for cause (thoracic rads, ab us. SLE testing)

renal biopsy only way to distringuish between primary glomerular dx such as amyloid vs icgn vs glomerulosclerosis 

2) TX: Diet protein restriction, PUFA supplementation, restrict Na,

ARBS-telmisartan (block raas), 

amlodipine, hydralazine-potent hypertension

anti-platelet-clopidogrel, aspirin

diuretics-spirolactone, hydrocholothiazine-for fluid accumulation 

amylodidosis-colchine for shair pai fever

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TX for pyelonephritis

empiric abx fluroquinolone or third gen cephalosporin-10-14 days.

if systemic 48-72 hours intravenous abx.

if creatine rise tx for aki