2. Renal Path 1 Flashcards
(151 cards)
Most glomerular diseases are immunologically mediated whereas tubular and what disorders are frequently caused by toxic or infectious agents?
Tubular and interestitial disorders
What is a biochemical abnormality that refers to an elevation of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatining levels, and is related largely to a decreased glomerular filtratation rate (GFR)?
Azotemia
Azotemia is a typical feature of both acute and chronic kidney injury. What type of azotemia is encountered when there is hypoperfusion of the kidneys that impairs renal function in the absence of parenchymal damage?
Pre-renal azotemia
What type of azotemia is seen whenever urine flow is obstructed distal to the kidney, with the relief of obstruction correcting the azotemia?
Post-renal azotemia
Azotemia leads to what, which is characterized not only by failure of renal excretory function (azotemia) but also by metabolic and endocrine alterations resulting from renal damage with secondary involvements of GI system, peripheral nerves and the heart?
Uremia (=azotemia + clinical signs and symptoms)
What syndrome is a clinical entity caused by glomerular disease and is dominated by the acute onset of grossly visible hematuria or microscopic hematuria with dysmorphic red cells and casts on urinalysis, diminished GFR, MILD to MOD proteinuria and HTN?
Nephritic Syndrome (i)
Nephritic Syndrome is the classic presentation of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is characterized as nephritic syndrome withrapid decline in?
GFR
What syndrome is due to glomerular disease and characerized by heavy (more than 3.5G/day) proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, severe edema, hyperlipidemia and lipiduria?
Nephrotic Syndrome (o)
What kidney injury is chracterized by rapid decline in GFR (hours to days) with concurrent dysregulation of fluid/electrolytes and retention of metabolic waste products normally excreted by the kidney including urea and creatinine? reversible
Acute kidney injury - severe can see oliguria or anuria (no urine)
What kidney disease is defined as presence of diminished GFR that is persistently less than 60mL/min for at least 3 months from any cause, and/or persistent albuminuria, sometimes clinically silent? irreversible
Chornic kidney disease- end result of all chronic renal parenchymal diseases
What occurs when the GFR is less than 5% of normal and is the terminal stage of uremia?
End stage renal disease (ESRD)
Renal tubular defects are dominated by polyuria, nocturia, and electrolyte disorders (metabolic acidosis). They are the result of diseases that directly affect tubular structures or cause defects in?
specific tuburlar functions
What is manifested by spasms of severe pain (renal colic) and hematuria, often with reccurent stone formation?
Nephrolithiasis
11% of the US older adults have chronic kidney dz, it is usually the end result of many renal diseases but most commonly what two factors are the major cause of death from renal disease?
Hypertension
Diabetes
Disorders in which the kidney is the only or predominant organ involved constitute the various types of primary glomerulonephritis/glomerulopathy, all other causes are termed?
Secondary glomerular diseases (SLE, hypertension, diabetes, amyloidosis)
Glomerulus consists of anastomosing of capillaries that are lined by what type of endothelium invested in two layers of epithelial cells?
Fenestrated endothelium
The visceral epithelial cells aka as what, are incorporated into and become intrinsic part of the capillary wall, separated from endothelial cells by a basement membrane?
Podocytes/Foot processes
What type of epithelium sits on the bowman capsule and lines the urinary space, the cavity in which the plasma filtrate first collects?
Parietal epithelium
The average size of the kidney is between 120-150 gms, average length is 10-12 centimeters, and the width is 6cm and thickness is ?
3cm
The kidneys are located retroperitoneally, and the right is lower than the left kidney due to the liver, they sit at about T12 and what is between the lower border of the 12th rib and lateral border of the erector spinae muscle?
renal angle (renal colic pain starts from this angle down and forwards into groin)
On electrophoresis, Gamma, Beta, and Alpha globulin will not travel as far as what, which is the smallest, most negatively charged serum protein (migrates fast)?
Albumin
The entire glomerular tuft is supported by what cells inbetween the capillaries, forming a meshwork with basement membrane, they are contractile, phagocytic and capable or proliferation, laying down matrix and collagen, and secreting biologically active mediators?
Mesangial cells
What is important for the maintenance of glomerular barrier function, which has slit diaphragm presents a size selective distal diffusion barrier to the filtration of proteins and it is the cell type that is largely responsible for synthesis of GBM components (glomerular basement membrane)?
Visceral epithelial cells (podocytes/foot processes)
*NOTE: loss of these are the key event in development of proteinuria
What bridges the filtration slit between two podocyte foot processes, making a slit diaphragm?
Nephrin Molecules