Last semester Flashcards
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Newborn Infant Toddler Young Children Older Children Adolescents
Newborn --> birth to 1 month Infant --> 1 month to 1 year Toddler --> 1 year to 2 years Young Children --> 2 years to 5 years Older Children --> 5 years to 12 years Adolescents
Normal gestation Pre term infants Post term infants Low birth weight Very low birth weight
Normal gestation --> 38 to 42 weeks Pre term infants --> before the end of 37th week Post term infants --> 42 weeks Low birth weight --> under 2500g Very low birth weight --> under 1500g
Gross motor physical development of a child
When does child understand name?
Newborn: flexed posture 7 mo: sits without support 1 year: stands independently 15-18 months: walks independently and steadily 2 1/2 years: rund and jumps
Child understands name at 1 year
3 endocrine levels
Primary: gonads, thyroid gland
Secondary: anterior pituitary
Tertiary: Hypothalamus
Goitre - causes
Non-toxic:
- dietary deficiency, hashimotos, neoplasm, genetics
Toxic:
- graves, hashimotos, neoplasm, TSH-secreting pituitary gland tumor
In hyperthyroidism, TSH levels are…
…decreased
Calcium daily balance
- 1 g Ca per day!
- Total calcium is twice as high as ionic calcium
- decreased ca levels –> PTH released
Growth hormone - IGF-1 axis
- produced at anterior pituitary
- released into blood stream
- action via its mediator IGF-1
- directly on traget tissue
- ghrelin is secreted in stomach and increases the release of growth hormone
Puberty
- hormones involved
- Stages
- Anterior pituitary: LH and FSH
- LH: stimulates testes –> testosterone
- FSH: stimulates ovaries
- puberty starts at 11 in boys, 10 in girls (LH is a good marker for beginning)
1- Adrenarche: implement of adrenal androgen which could give some pubic/ axillary hair –> not conencted to gonadarche
2- Gonadarche: maturation of gonads
Window of opportunity
- mini-puberty at 3-6 months of age
- increased LH and FSH levels
What should we ask in history taking of urinary tract?
ANTENATAL HISTORY:
- amniotic fluid volume
- alpha-fetoprotein level
- presence of fetal distress
- maternal drug history and diabetes
BIRTH HISTORY:
- delivery, apgar, weight…
- low weight –> low nephron number; high weight –> Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- number of umbilical vessels
- weight of placenta
Kidneys are enlarged/ palpable with…(7)
- autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
- autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
- tuberous sclerosis
- multicystic dysplastic kidney
- severly obstructed kidneys
- renal venous thrombosis
- renal tumor
Evidence of renal osteodystophy
- thickened wrists
- ricekty rosary
- lower limb deformities
Red Urine can be due to:
- macroscopic hematuria: the longer the contact and the more acidic the urine, the darker the color
- certain foods (beetroot)
- Hemoglobinuria
- myoglobinuria
- urate crystals
- drugs
- inborn errors of metabolism
Causes of cloudy urine
secondary to the presence of:
- pyuria (white blood cells)
- Calcium phosphate crystals
- combination of calcium salts, uric acid, cysteine or struvite
What does a dipstick urine test look for: (6)
- pH
- Blood
- Protein
- Glucose
- Leukocytes
- nitrites
Urine pH
- from 5 to 8
- important in diagnosing renal tubular acidosis
- important in treating and preventing urinary stones
Specific gravity
- 1.001 to 1.035
- reflects concentrating and diluting ability of kidney
- reflets persons hydration status
Causes of false positive and false negative proteinuria
FALSE POSITIVE:
- concentrated urine
- alkaline urine
- gross hematuria
- dipstick was left in too long
- contamination with secretions from urinary tract or vagina
- contamination with antiseptics, chlorhexidine, benzalkonium
FALSE NEGATIVE:
- diluted urine
- acidic urine
GLUCOSE on urine dipstick
- lower limit of detection is 4-5 mmol/l
- appears when serum glucose is >8.910 mmol/l
Nitrites of urine dipstick
- majority of pathogenic bacteria produce nitrite
- high specificity and low sensitivity for UTI
Casts in urine
- Hyaline casts –> in proteinuria
- Cellular casts
- ->RBCs (in glomerular bleeding) –> >5 RBC/mcl
- ->WBCs (renal inflammation) –> > 10 WBC/mcl
- ->epithelial cells
- can be a normal finding
- centrifugation can damage casts
Diagnostic tools in urinary system
- Ultrasound
- Intravenous urogram
- voiding cysturethrogram (to detect VUR)
- DMSA scan
- Dynamic renography (to asses renal blood flow)
- CT
- MRI
Hematopoiesis in children
- by birth, all bone marrow cavities are actively hematopoietic
- in childhood, hematopoiesis moves to central bones