Renal Replacement Therapy 2 Flashcards

1
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Where is the transplanted kidney usually located in the body?

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Iliac fossa

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2
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What vessels is the transplanted kidney anastomosed to?

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Iliac vessels

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3
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What happens to the native kidney when a kidney is transplanted?

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Is usually left in situ

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4
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What are indicates for native nephrectomy?

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Size (polycystic kidneys)

Infection (chronic pyelonephritis)

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5
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How is preservation of the donor kidney achieved?

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  • Cold storage solutions
  • Minimise oedema
  • Preserve integrity of tissues
  • Buffer free radicals
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6
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What are some complications with kidney transplants?

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  • Vascular complications
    • Bleeding
      • Usually anastomotic sites
      • Perirenal haematoma can be arterial or venous
    • Arterial thrombosis
    • Venous thrombosis
    • Lymphocele
  • Ureteric
    • Urine leak
  • Infections
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7
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How is immunosuppression achieved after a kidney transplant?

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  • Corticosteroids
  • Calcineurin inhibitors
    • Tacrolimus, cyclosporine
  • Anti-proliefratives
    • Mycophenolate mofetil, azathioprine
  • mTOR inhibitors
    • Sirolimus
  • Costimulatory signal blockers
    • Belatacept
  • Deleting agents
    • Basiliximab ( anti-CD25), Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), Rituximab (anti-CD20)
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8
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What are side effects of corticosteroids?

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9
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What are side effects of tacrolimus?

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10
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What are side effects of cyclosporin?

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11
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What are side effects of mycophenolate mofetil?

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12
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What are side effects of sirolimus?

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13
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What are side effects of belatacept?

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14
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What are side effects of ATG?

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15
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Explain the typical immunosuppression protocol?

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  • Induction
    • Basiliximab
  • Maintenance
    • Tacrolimus and mycophenolate and steroids
  • Steroid free is possible
  • Others
    • CNI-free using belatacept
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16
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What are some different types of donors?

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  • Decreased donors
    • Donation after brain death/DBD
      • Standard/extended criteria
    • Donation after cardiac death/DCD
      • Standard/extended criteria
  • Living donors
    • Living related donor
    • Living unrelated donor
      • Spousal
      • Altruistic
      • Paired/pooled
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17
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What does DBD stand for?

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Donation after brain death

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18
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What does DCD stand for?

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Donation are cardiac death

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19
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What is the criteria to be considered a donor after brain death?

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  • Coma, unresponsive to stimuli
  • Apnoea off ventilator (with oxygenation) despite build-up of CO2
  • Absence of cephalic reflexes
    • Pupillary
    • Oculocephalic
    • Oculovestibular
    • Corneal
    • Gag
    • Purely spinal reflexes may be present
  • Body temperature above 34oC
  • Absence of drug intoxication
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20
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What are the 2 kinds of donor criteria?

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  • Standard criteria (SCD)
  • Extended criteria (ECD)
    • Donor aged over 60
    • Donor aged 50-59 with history of hypertension, death from cerebrovascular accident or terminal creatinine of over 123umol/L
21
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What does SCD stand for?

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Standard criteria donor

22
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What does ECD stand for?

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Extended criteria donor

23
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When is somone considered to be an extended criteria donor?

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  • Donor aged 50-59 with history of hypertension, death from cerebrovascular accident or terminal creatinine of over 123umol/L
24
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Is there a gap between supply and demand for kidney transplants?

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There is way more demand than supply

25
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Does whether the donor is living or deceased impact the survival time of the person recieving the transplant?

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Yes, donations from living donors are better

26
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Are most kidney donations from living or deceased donors?

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Deceased donors

27
Q

What is the average waiting time for a kidney donation for adults and children?

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Adults - 845 to 883 days

Children - 205 to 327 days

28
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Does the amount of people on dialysis or with a transplant change depending on age?

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Yes, more older people are on dialysis and younger people get transplants

29
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Who could living kidney donations come from?

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  • Liver related donor
  • Liver unrelated donor (such as spousal)
  • Liver unrelated donor (altruistic, non-directed)
  • Paired/pooled
  • ABO incompatible/HLA incompatible
30
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What is paired pool and pooled donation?

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The pair may be matched to another couple in a similar situation so that both people in need of a transplant receive a matched organ or part organ. Pooled donation is where more than two pairs of donors and recipients are involved in the swap.

31
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Are the long term consequences for kidney donors severe?

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No, they appear to be minor

32
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Summarise the risk of kidney donation for the donor?

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  • Similar patient survival to general population
  • Lower rate of ESRD compared to general population
  • Compensatory increase in GFR remaining kidney to 70% of pre-donation values
  • Older age and high BMI associated with GFR <60
33
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What are some possible complications after renal transplantation?

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  • Rejection
    • Cell mediated
    • Humoral (ab mediated)
  • Cardiovascular
    • Underlying renal disease
    • CRF
    • Hypertension
    • Hyperlipidaemia
    • PT diabetes
  • Infective
    • Bacterial
    • Viral
    • Fungal
  • Malignancy
    • Skin
    • Lymphoma
    • Solid cancers
34
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What are the 2 different kinds of acute renal rejection?

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  • T cell mediated rejection (TCMR)
    • Tubulointersitial (Banff I)
    • Arteritis/endothelilitis (Banff II)
    • Arterial fibrinoid necrosis (Banff III)
  • Acute antibody mediated rejection (ABMR)
    • ATN-like (Banff I)
    • Caillaries and or glomerular inflammation (Banff II)
    • Arterial inflammation (Banff III)
35
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What does TCMR stand for?

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T cell mediated rejection

36
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What does ABMR stand for?

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Acute antibody mediated rejection

37
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What is used to classify the biopsies from solid organ translants?

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The Banff Classification of Allograft Pathology

38
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What is the most important transplant related infection?

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Cytomegalovirus

39
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How are transplant patients infected with cytomegalovirus?

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  • Transmission from donor tissue
  • Reactivation of latent virus
40
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How is the likelihood of cytomegalovirus infection destroying the graft reduced?

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Prophylaxis treatment

41
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What are tissue invasive disease that can affect a patient after receiving a kidney transplant?

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  • Pneumonitis
  • Hepatitis
  • Retinitis
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Colitis
  • Nephritis
42
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Other than cytomegalovirus, what other virus often affects patients after a kidney transplant?

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Polyomaviridae

43
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What are the different kinds of polyomaviridae?

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  • BK virus
  • JC virus
  • Murine polyoma virus
  • SV40
44
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What is the clinical presentation of the BK polyomaviridae virus?

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45
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What does BKAN stand for?

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BK virus nephropathy

46
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What are risk factors for BK virus nephropathy (BKVN)?

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  • Intensity of immunosuppression
  • Patient determinants
    • Older age, male gender, whte ethnicity, DM
  • Organ determinants
    • Graft injury, HLA mismatches, ureteral stents
  • Viral determinants
    • Changes in epitopes of viral capsid protein VP-1
47
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What are BKAN outcomes?

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  • Allograft dysfunction
  • Loss of graft in 45-80%
48
Q

What is the treatment of BKAN?

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  • Reduce immunosuppression
  • Antiviral therapy
    • Cidofovir with or without IVIG
    • Leflunomide
49
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What are the most common malignancies that occur after renal transplant?

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