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Acute Kidney Injury
• Abrupt decline in GFR
• Characterized by:???????
– Decrease urine output (oliguria or anuria)
– Increase waste products (urea, creatinine)
– Fluid and electrolyte imbalance
– Acid‐base imbalance
Renal Failure
• Duration
– Acute is ????
Renal Failure
• Duration
– Acute < 1 month
– Rapidly progressive > 1 month < 3 months
– Chronic > 3 months
• Often difficult to tell without previous
lab data
Renal Failure
• Duration
– Acute < 1 month
– Rapidly progressive -???????
Renal Failure
• Duration
– Acute < 1 month
– Rapidly progressive > 1 month < 3 months
– Chronic > 3 months
• Often difficult to tell without previous
lab data
Renal Failure
• Duration
– Acute < 1 month
– Rapidly progressive > 1 month < 3 months
– Chronic > ????????
Renal Failure
• Duration
– Acute < 1 month
– Rapidly progressive > 1 month < 3 months
– Chronic > 3 months
• Often difficult to tell without previous
lab data
3 etiologies of Acute Kidney Injury
Acute Kidney Injury
• Etiology
–Prerenal azotemia
–Intrinsic renal disease
–Postrenal azotemia
what are these:

–Prerenal azotemia
–Intrinsic renal disease
–Postrenal azotemia
3 etiologies of Acute Kidney Injury
Adaptive response to severe volume
depletion, hypotension or effective
circulating volume depletion
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury is
Adaptive response to severe volume
depletion, hypotension or effective
circulating volume depletion
• Single most common cause of renal
failure (all settings)
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injur

Adaptive response to severe volume
depletion, hypotension or effective
circulating volume depletion
persistant hypoperfusion of the kidney leads to
ischemia and Intrinsic renal failure
what happens in the kidney in the begining of Prerenal Azotemia
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Compromised renal perfusion
• Intact glomerular and tubular function
• Renal adaptation
– Afferent vasodilatation
• Myenteric reflex
• Vasodilator prostaglandins
– Efferent vasoconstriction
• Angiotensin II
– Increased tubular reabsorption of solute and
water
• Most potent Na retaining hormone
Angiotensin II
• Renin released from JG cells
• Increased angiotensin II
• Most potent Na retaining hormone
• Increases Na and water reabsorption
– Increasing blood pressure
– Restoring extracellular fluid volume
at what BP is the kidney no longer able to autoregulate itself and maintain GFR
70 and below
• Decreases peritubular capillary hydrostatic
pressure
• Increases filtration fraction increasing COP in
peritubular capillary
– A‐II constricts efferent arteriole
– Stimulates Na/K ATPase basolateral membrane
– Stimulates Na/H exchanger PCT
Angiotensin II
• Effects
– A‐II stimulates aldosterone secretion
– A‐II constricts efferent arteriole
• Decreases peritubular capillary hydrostatic
pressure
• Increases filtration fraction increasing COP in
peritubular capillary
– Stimulates Na/K ATPase basolateral membrane
– Stimulates Na/H exchanger PCT
• Increases filtration fraction increasing COP in
peritubular capillary
Angiotensin II
• Effects
– A‐II stimulates aldosterone secretion
– A‐II constricts efferent arteriole
• Decreases peritubular capillary hydrostatic
pressure
• Increases filtration fraction increasing COP in
peritubular capillary
– Stimulates Na/K ATPase basolateral membrane
– Stimulates Na/H exchanger PCT
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes
– Intravascular volume depletion
• Hemorrhage
• Diarrhea, vomiting, polyuria
• Burns
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes ????
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes
– Intravascular volume depletion
• Hemorrhage
• Diarrhea, vomiting, polyuria
• Burns
– *Cardiac failure
• Congestive heart failure
• Arrhythmias and valvular disease
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes: Changes in Vascular Resistance
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes: Changes in Vascular Resistance
– Peripheral vasodilation
• Anaphylactic shock
• Drugs/anesthesia
• *Sepsis/severe infections
• Liver failure
– Primary renal hemodynamic abnormalities
• Renal artery stenosis, embolism, thrombosis
• *Medications (nonsteroidal anti
angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors)
anti‐inflammatory agents,
• Causes: Changes in Vascular Resistance
– Peripheral vasodilation
• Anaphylactic shock
• Drugs/anesthesia
• *Sepsis/severe infections
• Liver failure
– Primary renal hemodynamic abnormalities
• Renal artery stenosis, embolism, thrombosis
• *Medications (nonsteroidal anti
angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors)
anti‐inflammatory agents,
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes: Changes in Vascular Resistance
– Peripheral vasodilation
• Anaphylactic shock
• Drugs/anesthesia
• *Sepsis/severe infections
• Liver failure
– Primary renal hemodynamic abnormalities
• Renal artery stenosis, embolism, thrombosis
• *Medications (nonsteroidal anti
angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors)
anti‐inflammatory agents,
• *Sepsis/severe infections
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes: Changes in Vascular Resistance
– Peripheral vasodilation
• Anaphylactic shock
Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
• Causes: Changes in Vascular Resistance
– Peripheral vasodilation
• Anaphylactic shock
• Drugs/anesthesia
• *Sepsis/severe infections
• Liver failure
– Primary renal hemodynamic abnormalities of Prerenal Acute Kidney Injury
– Primary renal hemodynamic abnormalities
• Renal artery stenosis, embolism, thrombosis
• *Medications (nonsteroidal anti
angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors)
anti‐inflammatory agents,
cyclosporine and tacrolimus vasoconstrict
the afferant arteriole and can lead to prerenal acute kidney injury
NSAIDs constrict what arteriole
afferent and therefore they can cause prerenal kidney injury
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury has what four causes
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute tubular necrosis (ATN)
– Renal toxins
– Prolonged hypotension
• Acute i interstitial nephritis (AIN)
– Medications
• Acute glomerulonephritis (GN)
– Post‐infectious GN
• Vasculitis
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute tubular necrosis (ATN)
– Renal toxins
– Prolonged hypotension
• Acute i interstitial nephritis (AIN)
– Medications
• Acute glomerulonephritis (GN)
– Post‐infectious GN
• Vasculitis
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury has what four causes
• Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) caused by what
– Renal toxins
– Prolonged hypotension
– Renal toxins
– Prolonged hypotension

cause what?
• Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) caused by what
Most common cause of intrinsic AKI
• ATN
– Most common cause of intrinsic AKI
– Most common causes are ischemia and toxins
– Persistent hypoperfusion
renal failure (ATN)
– Toxins include:
• Common ‐ aminoglycosides and contrast
• Less common ‐ heme pigments, chemotherapeutic
agents, cyclosporine, multiple myeloma
→ ischemia and intrinsic
– ATN Toxins include:
• Common
Common ‐ aminoglycosides and contrast
• Less common ‐ heme pigments, chemotherapeutic
agents, cyclosporine, multiple myeloma
Cr increases 48 hours a after
– Cr increases 48 hours a after contrast exposure in ATN caused by this
– Prevention
• Hydration
• N‐acetylcysteine (antioxidant)
• Low volume and low osmolality
– Common cause of ATN in hospitalized patients
• Contrast agents
– Common cause of ATN in hospitalized patients
– Renal ischemia and direct tubular toxicity
– Cr increases 48 hours a after contrast exposure
– Prevention
• Hydration
• N‐acetylcysteine (antioxidant)
• Low volume and low osmolality
Acute Tubular Necrosis
• Pathogenesis – vulnerable cells?????
S 3 segment of PCT
– Medullary thick ascending limb LOH
– Exposed to chronic hypoxia
– High metabolic demand
• Primarily Na reabsorption
• Loss of cell polarity
• Cell detachment
Acute Tubular Necrosis
• Pathogenesis

– Tubular factors
• Loss of cell polarity
• Cell detachment
Acute Tubular Necrosis
• Pathogenesis – potential factors
Acute Tubular Necrosis
• Pathogenesis – potential factors
– Altered autoregulation
– Altered TGF
– Tubular factors
• Loss of cell polarity
• Cell detachment
– Inflammatory factors
• Neutrophils (? ICAM‐1)
• Macrophages
– Cell swelling (decreased ATP)
– Calcium influx
– Phospholipase A 2 (breakdown membrane PL)
– Reactive oxygen species
– Complement activation
Acute Tubular Necrosis
• Pathogenesis – mediators of cell injury, either
ischemia or cytotoxic
– Cell swelling (decreased ATP)
– Calcium influx
– Phospholipase A 2 (breakdown membrane PL)
– Reactive oxygen species
– Complement activation
flattening of the epithelium
early ATN
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus
Acute Kidney Injury
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus 7‐10 days (injury phase)
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus 7‐10 days (injury phase)
– Maintenance phase?????
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus 7‐10 days (injury phase)
– Maintenance phase 10
nonoliguric)
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus 7‐10 days (injury phase)
– Maintenance phase 10
nonoliguric)
– Recovery?????
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus 7‐10 days (injury phase)
– Maintenance phase 10
nonoliguric)
– Recovery 14‐21 days (recovery phase)
• ATN – time course
• ATN – time course
– Cr plateaus 7‐10 days (injury phase)
– Maintenance phase 10
nonoliguric)
– Recovery 14‐21 days (recovery phase)
• Mortality rate remains high
– ICU patients 40‐80%
10‐14 days (oliguric or
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Small vessel and or glomerular injury
causes??????
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Small vessel and or glomerular injury
– Vasculitis
– Cholesterol emboli
– Malignant hypertension
– Thrombotic microangiopathy
– Acute glomerulonephritis
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute interstitial nephritis

what Systemic diseases can cause this shit
(Sjogren’s syndrome
sarcoidosis, lupus)
–Penicillins (methicillin)
–Cephalosporins
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute interstitial nephritis caused by meds
causes of AIN
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute interstitial nephritis
– Acute pyelonephritis
– Medications (70%)
–Penicillins (methicillin)
–Cephalosporins
– Systemic disease (Sjogren’s syndrome
sarcoidosis, lupus)
– Other infections (HIV, CMV)
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute interstitial nephritis
– Classic triad
Intrinsic Acute Kidney Injury
• Acute interstitial nephritis
– Classic triad – fever, rash, eosinophilia
– Urine eosinophils present
– β lactam antibiotics (methicillin)
– Duration of drug 2‐60 days
– Non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory agents
associated with nephrotic syndrome
(fenoprofen)
NSAIDs cause what type of nephrotic disease
MCD
retroperitoneal fibrosis can cause
Extraureteral obstruction:
Intraureteral obstruction: ????
stones, papillary necrosis
Lower urinary tract obstruction:
Lower urinary tract obstruction:
neurogenic bladder, anticholinergic
medications
BPH, cancer
Acute Kidney Injury: Evaluation
• Urinalysis
• Urine indices
• Imaging - ???????????
main test is ultrasound
what type of casts will be seen in someone with myoglobin acute kidney injury
granular casts
interstitial disease casts
white cell casts
lots of epithelial cells in the urine
ATN
• Tubular function assesment
• Tubular function:
– Fractional excretion of Na reflects % of filtered Na
excreted

quantity of Na excreted over filtered
Prerenal AKI what is the urinary sodium
< 10 while in ATN it is greater than 20
Prerenal AKI what is the Urine osmolality
greater than 550 while in ATN it is less than 250
type of casts seen in prerenal azotemia compared to ATN
bland hyaline casts as opposed to the muddy brown granular casts
what is the fractional excretion of sodium in prerenal
less than 1 while it is greater than 2 in ATN
Increase in BUN/Cr ratio > 20:1
– Prerenal AKI
– Prerenal AKI
– Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
– Catabolic states
– Drugs (corticosteroids, tetracycline)
Acute Kidney Injury: Evaluation
• Increase in BUN/Cr ratio > 20:1
– Prerenal AKI
– Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
– Catabolic states
– Drugs (corticosteroids, tetracycline)
• BUN/Cr ratio < 10:1
• BUN/Cr ratio < 10:1
– Large muscle mass
– Muscle injury (rhabdomyolysis)
– Ketoacidosis
– Medications (TMP/SMX, cimetadine,
cephalosporins)
– Medications (TMP/SMX, cimetadine,
cephalosporins) may cause
• BUN/Cr ratio < 10:1
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Prerenal AKI????
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Prerenal AKI
– Intravascular volume repletion
– Maintain euvolemia
– Maximize cardiac function in CHF
– Stop/avoid nephrotoxic medications
– Treat underlying sepsis
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Intrinsic AKI ‐ ATN
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Intrinsic AKI ‐ ATN
– Optimize renal hemodynamics
– Remove and avoid all nephrotoxins
– Avoid hyperkalemia
– Avoid volume overload
– Dose all medications appropriately
– Renal replacement therapy
– General supportive care
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Intrinsic AKI ‐ AIN
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Intrinsic AKI ‐ AIN
– Remove offending drug
– Renal replacement therapy
– +/‐ steroids
Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment
• Intrinsic AKI ‐ AIN
– Remove offending drug
– Renal replacement therapy
– +/‐ steroids
• Postrenal AKI (obstruction)
• Postrenal AKI (obstruction)
– Foley catheter
– Ureteral stents
– Nephrostomy tubes
Complications of AKI and Uremia
Complications of AKI and Uremia
• Neurologic manifestations
– Obtundation, asterixis, seizures
• Cardiac manifestations
– Volume overload, pulmonary edema,
pericarditis
• Electrolyte abnormalities
– Hyperkalemia
• Metabolic acidosis
Complications of AKI and Uremia

• Electrolyte abnormalities????
– Hyperkalemia