Kidney And Renal Function

Question 1

What type of disorder is a kidney disease?

Answer 1

Heterogenesis

Question 2

What does kidney disease affect?

Answer 2

Can affect glomerular function alone if a number of tubular functions

Decline in renal function

Question 3

What two ways can you gain access to a patient with kidney disease ?

Answer 3

-clinical examination

• laboratory investigations

Question 4

What are 3 examples of clinical examination for kidney disease?

Answer 4

• blood pressure
•fluid status
•symptoms

Question 5

What are 3 examples of laboratory investigations for kidney disease?

Answer 5

• diagnosis
• monitoring (prognosis)
• guide treatment

Question 6

What are some signs and symptoms of renal failure?

Answer 6

• pain

-symptoms of uraemia (vomiting nausea)

-disorders of urine volume (oliguria, polyuria)

-disorders of Micturition (frequency, retention)

Question 7

How is the presentation of patients important in a role in biochem testing?

Answer 7

• rarely establishes the cause
  -screening for damage
  -monitoring progressiom

Question 8

What does GFR stand for?

Answer 8

Glormerular filtration rate

Question 9

What does the liver do?

Answer 9

• clearing the blood of bacteria and infections

•manufacturing bile

• cholesterol synthesis

•controlling levels of fats,amino acids and glucose in the blood

•neutralising or destroying drugs and toxins

•storing iron and vitamin C

Question 10

What are advantages of GFR?

Answer 10

-easy to measure

-lab computer calculates automatically

-does not require any infusion