CRF

Question 0

What is glomerularonephritis?

Answer 0

Inflammation of the glomerulus

Question 1

What is chronic kidney disease?

Answer 1

Process of continuing significant reduction in renal fiction.

Corresponds to CKD stages 3-5

Question 2

Risk factors for CKD?

Answer 2

Past AKI
URINARY TRACT ABNORMALITIES
PROTEINURIA IS NEPHROTOXIC
CO-MORBIDITIES

Question 3

Common causes of CKD?

Answer 3

Diabetic nephropathy (MC)
Hypertensive nephropathy
Chronic glomerulonephritis

Question 4

What is the prognosis of dialysis?

Answer 4

5 year survival rate is 20%
Survival worse in peritoneal dialysis than haemodialysis

Kidney transplant provides better QOL

Question 5

What is dialysis and what are the types?

Answer 5

Process of removing waste and excess water from the blood.

Haemodialysis - blood pumped through semi-permeable membrane

Peritoneal dialysis - use abdomen as a membrane, pass sterile glucose solution through abdominal cavity.

Question 6

How does chronic hypertension damage kidneys?

Answer 6

HTN -> damage to arterial ward -> hyaline arteriosclerosis -> narrowed lumen -> ischemia of renal parenchyma and ischemic atrophy of glomeruli -> kidney scarring (and smaller?) -> nephrosclerisis