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What is the allantois? What does it become?
Fetal structure that connects bladder to yolk sac -> turns into urachus (through umbilicus)
A baby is losing urine through it's umbilicus. What's going on?
Patent uracus -> remnant of allantois, which connected bladder to yolk sac during fetal development.
A persistent yolk stalk leads to what in neonatal life?
GI - umbilicus attachments. Meckels, cyst, etc (persistent viteline duct)
What do the paramesonephric ducts fuse to form??
The uteran tubes, uterus, cervix and upper 1/3 of the vagina
What do the mesonephric ducts go on to form and males and females?
Women: Gartner's ducts. Men: wolfian ducts -> male genitalia
Incomplete fusion of what in the male forms hypospadias?
Urethral folds
Hydogcoele and indirect inguinal hernia form when what fails to obliterate?
Processus vaginalis
What embryonic structure gives rise to the collecting system of the kidneys (collecting ducts, minor and major calyces, renal pelvis, ureters)?
Ureteric bud
What embryonic structure gives rise to the glomerulus through collecting tubule)?
Metanephric mesoderm
What hormones make the uterus NOT develop in males?
Mullerian inhibitory factor (MIF) (causes regression of paramesonephric ducts)
The embryonic testes secrete what 2 hormones?
MIF (regression of female parts) and testosterone (development of genetalia)
What is epispadius? What causes it?
Hypospadius but dorsal. Caused by malpositioning of genital tubercle
What is Potter syndrome?
Oligohydraminos -> compression of fetus with resulting limb and facial deformities, lung hypoplasia
What is the most common cause of fetal hydronephrosis? Why?
Uretopelvic junction obstruction - this is the last part of the ureteric bud to canalize
Ureteric bud is usually fully canalized by what gestational week?
10
What happens to RPF, GFR and FF at moderate and severe efferent artiolar constriction?
Moderate: Decreased RBF, Incresed GFR (from increased hydrostatic pressure) and increased FF. Severe: Further decreased RBF, decresed GFR (from buildup of plasma oncotic pressure from slow blood flow) increased FF.
5 things that cause nephrotic syndrome and 2 things that cause nephrotic and nephritic?
FSGS, membranous nephropathy, minimal change dz, amyloidosis, diabetic glomerulonephropathy. Both: Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
4 things that cause nephritc syndrome and 2 things that cause both?
Acute PSGN, RPGN, Berger's IgA nephropathy, Alport syndrome
What part of the kidney does ANP work on? What is its effect on GFR and Na+ reabsoprtion?
ANP relaxes afferent and constricts effernt arteriole, also decreases renin, causing an increase in GFR with no compensatory increase in Na+ reabsorption, leading to overall loss of Na+ and H2O.
Does drug induced lupus frequently involve the kideny?
Nope! (ie, procainamide induced)
Pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy?
Increased ANP secretion 2/2 hyperglycemia -> increased GFR. Then get morphological changes in kidney to compensate -> increased mesangial matrix and thickened basement membrane -> nodular glomerulosclerosis
"eosinophillic glomerulosclerosis" (Kimmelstiel Wilson lesions) what kidney problem?
Diabetic nephropathy!
"Diffuse glomerular hypercellularity 2/2 increased mesangial cell proliferation and leaukocyte infiltration" "lumpy bumpy" what GN?
PSGN
What tirggers minimal change dz?
Recent infeciton or immune rxn (allergic rxn ex: bees)
What GN is associated with HIV infection, heroin abuse, and obesity?
FSGS
"Segmental sclerosis and hyalinosis" what GN?
FSGS
What are the 3 embryonic kidney stages?
Pronephros, mesonephros, metanephros
During the ascent of the horseshoe kidney, what blood vessel catches it?
IMA
What 3 cells is the JG apartaus composed of?
Macula densa cells, JG cells, extraglomerular mesangial cells
What kind of cells are JG cells and where are they located?
Modified smooth muscle cells located in the walls of afferent arterioles.
What do the JG cells respond to (3) and what do they do in response?
Respond to: decreased renal blood pressure, decreased NaCl delivery to distal tubule (sensed by MD cells) and increased sympathetic tone
Where are the macula densa cells located? What do they do?
Located in distal tubule. Monitor osmolity (amount of NaCl) and amount of urine and transmit info to JG cells.
What cells become hypertrophied when renal blood flow is decreased?
JG cells! 2/2 RAAS stimulation from low blood volume.
At what plasma glucose concentration does glucosuria begin? At what concentration are renal transporters full saturated?
Beings at 160, fully saturated at 350.
In what state do you get glucosuria at lower plasma concentrations than normal?
Pregnancy!
What's up with PAH clearance from the kidney? What can it be used to estimate?
PAH is almost completely secreted (so anything not filtered is secreted into the tubules from the efferent blood anyway). Thus can be used to estimate RBF
What's up with inulin clearance from the kideny? What can it thus be used to estimate?
Not secreted or reabosrbed - thus can be used to measure GFR.
What % of sodium is normally reabsorbed by the kidney?
~99%
Approximately what % of urea is normally reabsorbed by the kidney?
~40-50%. Stable at a constant GFR.
Can you sometimes see respiratory failure in DKA?
Yes! Watch for it
What neurotransmittor is released on the adrenal medulla?
Ach! (a preganglionic neuron)
What two parts of the kideny are most damaged in ischemic ATN?
Proximal tubule and thick ascending loop (in outer medulla, which has low blood supply, and also both have transport that requires ATP)
How do you calculate RPF frmo RBF?
(1-hct)(RBF)
Where in the nephron does aldosterone act?
Collecting ducts
What effect does aldosterone have on K+ and H+ in the collecting ducts? In what cell types?
Aldosterone increases secretion of K from the principle cells and H from the intercalcated cells of the collecting tubules
What is the primary stimulus for aldosterone secretion?
Decreased blood volume
What is the primary stimulus for ADH secretion? What factor takes precedence if 2 diff things are competing?
Increased blood osmolarity (and secondarily blood volume). HOWEVER, low blood volume takes precendence over osmolarity if the 2 compete
In a water deprivation state, what part of the nephron contains the most dilute urine?
Distal convoluted tubule (impermeable to water, only solute are being reabsorbed, diluting urine)
What is the osmolality of the urine in the proximal convoluted tubule?
Isotonic = ~290
What kind of drug is bumetanide?
Loop diuretic! (bumex)
How does manniotl work?
Extracts fluid from interstitial space into lumen, then causes diuresis.
What is a possible toxicity of mannitol?
Pulmonary edema! Due to too much fluid being pulled intravascularly at once - worsened with prexisiting CHF.
EM: "subepithelial immune complex humps"?
PSGN
"Diffuse capillary and GBM thickening" on LM, what GN?
Membranous GN
EM: "Spike and dome appearance with subepithelial deposits". What GN?
Membranous GN
EM: "Foot process effacement" What GN?
Minimal change dz
"Selective loss of albumin, not globumins, 2/2 GBM polyanion loss" What GN?
Minimal change dz
LM: "Congo red stains shows apple-green birefringence under polarized light" What GN?
Amyloidosis
LM: "Tram track appearance due to GBM splitting" what GN? (2)
Membranoproliferative GN and Alports
LM: "Intramembranous IC deposits" "dense deposits" what GN?
Membranoproliferative GN
What GN is associated with HBV and HCV?
Membranoproliferative GN
"Non enzymatic glycosylation of GBM and efferent arterioles" what GN?
Diabetic GN
IF: "granular appearance due to IgG, IgM and C3 deposition along GBM and mesangium"
PSGN
"linear immunofrluorescence" what GN?
Goodpasteurs
What type of GN is Goodpasteurs?
Rapidly progressing GN (crescentic)
EM: "GBM disruptions and fibrin deposition" What GN?
RPGN (crescentic)
LM: "wire looping of capilaries" what GN?
Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
What 2 things cause diffuse proliferative GN?
SLE and MPGN
MoA lithium-induced DI? Reversible?
Blocks action of ADH in collecting tubules. Reversible with discontinuation of the drug
What 3 things cause crescentic GN?
Goodpastures, Wegeners, microscopic polyangitis
What renally active drug causes ototoxicity and deafness? When is it more likely to occur?
Loop diuretics! More likely at higher doses, rapid IV administration or when used with other ototoxic agents.
What is triamterene?
A K sparing diuretic
Sprinolactone, eplerenone, triamterene and amiloride are all K sparing diuretics. How are their MoAs different?
Spironolactone and eplerenone are aldosterone receptor antagonists. Triamterene and amiloride blocking Na+ channels. All work in CCT.
Why do you become hypercoagulable during nephrotic syndrome?
2/2 loss of ATIII.
Nephrotic syndrome with sudden onset of L sided flank pain, hematuria and left varicocele - suspect what?
L renal vein thrombosis 2/2 hypercoagulabilty from nephrotic syndrome
What rib overlies the left kidney?
12th
What ribs overlie the splee?
9-11th
"Cystic dilations of the medullary collecting ducts" What condition? What does it predispose to?
Medullary sponge kidney. Common benign congenital disorder. Predisposes to kideny stones, NOT chronic renal failure.
What 2 immunosuprpessants work by blocking T cell differentiation. Mechanism?
Cyclosporin and tacrolimus. Calcineurin inhibitiors -> blocks production of IL-2, which is responsible for T cell differentiation
What class of renally acting drug has a side effect profile including somnolence and paresthesias?
Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
What kidney d/o is characterized by multiple cysts of different sizes and abscence of a normal pelvocalceal system? Are defects present at birth? Cause?
Multicystic kidney dysplasia. Defects present at birth. 2/2 abnormal interaction between ureteric bud and metanephric mesenchyme
Can ADPKD be picked up on newborn US?
Nope! Cysts too small at birth to be seen on US.
What are the 2 main extrarenal symptoms of ADPKD?
Liver cysts and brain aneurysms
Is RAAS up, down or normal in nephrotic syndrome?
Upregulated. Movement of fluid into interstitium from lumen -> decresed apparent circulating volume seen by kidenys -> RAAS!
In what 2 forms is excess H+ removed in the urine during DKA?
Free H+ and titratable acids (H2PO4- and NH4+)
How do you calculate RPF from PAH clearance?
([Urine PAH] x urine flow rate)/[plasma PAH]
How do carbonic anhydrase inhibitors affect HCO3 in the proximal tubule?
Block reabsorption, so INCREASE amount EXCRETED in urine
Where in the kidney is the primary site of osmotic diuretic action?
Descending loop of henle (where only water is usually be reabsorbed). Also a little action in proximal tubule as well.
What diuertic is indicated in the treatment of calcium kidney stones? What other med?
HCTZ! Increases calcium reabsorption so decreases urinary calcium. Also citrate
What effect does acute ureteral obstruction have on GFR, RPF and FF?
RPF stays the same, GFR and FF decreases 2/2 increased hydrostatic pressure in bowman's space (interstitium) from backwards buildup.
What is it called when your kidneys recover from ATN?
Re-epithelialization
Is glucose secreted or reabsorbed in the kidney?
Reabsorbed!
Is creatinine secreted, reabsorbed or neither in the kideny?
Secreted! (Thus Cr clearance slightly overestimates GFR)
Do you see RBC casts with bladder cancer or kidney stones?
Nope! Just hematuria.
Amphotericin B causes what 2 electrolyte abnormalities 2/2 renal toxcity?
HypoMg and hypoK (can cause cardiac arrythmias)
What is foscarnet used for? Electrolyte side effects?
To treat CMV retinitis in HIV patients. Can cause hypocalcemia (chelates calcium) and hypomag 2/2 renal effects.
Let's just be clear: loop and thiazides have what effect on potassium?
DECREASE SERUM POTASSIUM.
Effect of ACE inhibitors on potassium?
Increase serum potassium 2/2 decreased aldosterone
Are there such things as renin-secreting tumors?
Yes.
What effect do Loops have on PGs? What does this result in?
Cause increased PGs, resulting in more afferent arteriolar dilation -> greater GFR and delivery of drug!
What is nesiritide?
A BNP analog
What 2 things stay at approximately the same concentration throughout the proximal tubule?
Na and K (as well as fluid osmolarity)
What 3 substances significantly increase in concentration through the proximal tubule? Why?
PAH, Creatinine, Inulin - not reabsorbed at all! (In fact, Cr and PAH are secreted!)
What 2 things increase slightly in concentration in the proximal tubule, but not as much as PAH/Cr/Inulin?
Urea and Cl
What 2 substances decreases slightly in concentration in the PT, but not as much as glucose and AAs?
Bicarb and inorganic phosphate!
What 2 things decrease in concentration MASSIVELY in the proximal tubule?
Glucose and AAs
What is the most common type of RCC? What does it look like histologically? What cell type does ir originate from?
Clear cell carcinoma. Rounded or plygonal cells with abundant clear cytoplasm. Proximal tubule cells.
What are calcium and phosphate levels in ESRD? Why?
Low Ca (lower activated vit D) and high phosphate (from kidney not excreting it as well). Secondary hyperpara does not make up for calcium - it stays low!
What does the hypocalcemia of ESRD cause?
Renal osteodystrophy
Effect of uremia on thyroid hormones?
Decreases peripheral conversion of T4 to T3 -> functional hypothyroidism
What is the most important prognostic factor in poststrep GN?
Age! Kids almost all recover completely, adults not as much.
Do you use steroids to treat poststrep GN?
Nope!
Tx of minimal change dz?
Steroids!
What happens to RPF, GFR and FF in severe hypovolemia?
RPF and GFR both fall, but 2/2 RAAS effernent arteriole constriction, RPF falls more -> FF actually increses.
What is the eventual outcome of ADPKD?
ESRD
What parts of the nephron have the lowest pH?
Distal tubules and collecting ducts
Where in the nephron are uric acid crystals most likely to form?
Distal tubules and collecting ducts because they are the most acidic, and uric acid crystals precipitate in acid!
For what 2 kinds of kidney stones do you treat with alkalinization of the urine?
Uric acid and cystine (precipitate in acidic environment)
Which is oliguric and which is polyuric - maintenance or recoery phase of ATN?
Maintenance (middle phase) = oliguric. Recovery = ployuric.
What happens to fluid status and potassium levels during the maintenance vs recovery phases of ATN?
Maintenance - 2/2 oliguria, hypervolemia and hyperkalemia. Recovery - 2/2 polyuria, become dehydrated and hypokalemic (also low Mg, Phos and Ca due to slowly recovering tubular function)
What occupational exposures predispose you to bladder cancer? (5)
Rubber, plastics, textiles, leather, aromatic amine-containing dyes
What area of the nephron is impermeable to water?
Ascending loop of henle
Timing difference with IgA nephropathy and PSGN with regards to prior illness?
IgA - a few days. PSGN - 2 weeks
Most common GN associated with solid tumors?
Membranous GN
Circulating IgG4 Abs to the phospholipase A2 receptor (a protein on podocytes) is associated with what GN?
Membranous nephropathy
Antibodies to the alph-3- chain of collagen Type IV cause what condition?
Goodpastures
Do you see RBC casts with nephritic and nephrotic syndrome?
Nope, just nephritic!
Where in the nephron is urine most concentrated in the abscence vs presence of ADH?
Presence: end of collecting ducts. Absence: junction of descending and ascending loop of henle
Renal function in MCD?
Normal!
Why do thiazides cause hypercalcemia?
In the DCT (where they act) there is a basolateral (serum side) Na/Ca exchagner. If decreased Na+ is absorbed into cell from urine, gradient is for more Na+ to move into cell from serum, and thus more Ca to be exchanged into serum.
MoA acyclovir nephrotoxicity? How can you prevent?
When concentration exceeds solubility, get acyclovir crystals that muck things up. Pretreat with AGRESSIVE IV HYDRATION
What are the epithelial cells of the glomerulus?
Podocytes!
Which is more size selective, endothelial, epothelial or GBM of the glomerulus?
GBM and epithelium - both VERY size selective.
By what process is PAH secreted from the proximal tubule. What does this imply about excretion rate?
Carrier protein mediated - secretion can be maxed out at a certain level (though filtration at the glomerulus will never be)
Are excretion and secretion the same thing?
No! Excretion is filtration + secretion.
What is the main site of potassium excretion regulation in the nephron?
CCT.
Is potassium reabsorbed in the PCT and the loop of henle?
Yes!
Which parts of the collecting duct do aldosterone and ADH work at, respectively?
Aldosterone = cortical. ADH = medullary
What 3 factors is the diffusion of a molecule across a membrane directly proportional to? What 2 factors are inversely proportional?
Directly: the concentration difference across the membrane, the surface area of the membrane, and the solubility of the molecule. Inverse: membrane thickness, molecular weight
How do you calculate the filtration rate of a random substance from the plasma?
GFR x plasma concentration
GFR is approximately equal to clearance of what?
Inulin!
"spike and dome" appearance. What GN?
Membranous GN.
MoA OKT3?
Is an antibody against CD-3, which is expressed on T lymphocytes. Useful in acute organ rejection.
Main renal pathophysiologic abnormality in chronic NSAID use?
Chronic interstitial nephritis and papillary necrosis
Renal biopsy showing ballooning and vacuolar degeneration + oxalte crystals -> caused by what?
Ethylene glycol poisening!
In addition to water, what substance's reabsorption is increased by ADH? Where?
Urea! In the medullary collecting duct.
What kind of casts are seen in myeloma kidney?
Eosinophillic casts composed of Bence-Jones protein.
What section of the nephron absorbs the most fluid in normal vs dehydrated states?
Regardless of fluid status, the proximal tubule absorbs the greatest part of fluid, passively with resorption of solutes
As people age, their renal clearance decreases, yet Cr usually stays about the same. Why? What does this mean for drug dosing?
Because muscle mass also decreases. It means that even though Cr is normally, drugs should still be renally dosed for a lower clearance
How is dig excreted?
Renally, essentially unchanged from how was ingested
What fraction of total body water is extracellular? What fraction of that is plasma vs interstitial?
1/3 of TBW is extracellular. 1/4 of that is plasma (3/4 = interstitial). Therefore, 1/12 of TBW is plasma.
What is a normal filtration fraction?
0.2
PAH clearance is an estimate of what?
RPF
Effect of afferent arteriolar constriction on RPF, GFR and FF?
Decreased RPF and GFR, so FF stays the same
Transporters that resorb AAs are dependent on what?
Na+!
What 2 places in the nephron does PTH work? What does it do in each place?
Proximal tubule -> inhibits Na/Phosphate cotransport, leading to phosphate excretion. DCT: Increased Na/Ca exchanger, leading to calcium absorption
What is the action of ATII at the proximal tubule?
Stimulates NA/H exchange, leading to increased NA, H2O and HCO3 absoprtion -> contraction alkalosis
What cells in the kidney release EPO. In response to what?
Interstitial cells. In response to hypoxia
What cell do the vit D conversion?
Proximal tubule cells
What is Type 1 RTA? What type of stone does it predispose to? Associated with what K derrangement?
"Distal". Impairment in excretion of H+ in collecting duct. Assoc with hypokalemia. Calcium phosphate stone (2/2 increased pH)
What is the pathophys of Type 2 RTA? Potassium derrangement?
Proxiaml tubule HCO3 reabsorption fail. Hypokalemia
Where is ammonia secreted in the nephron? Why?
In proximal tubule to buffer secreted acid.
Pathophys of type 4 RTA?
Decreased aldosterone or CCT lack of response to aldosterone. Results in hyperkalemia, which impairs ammoniagenesis in the proximal tubule, decreasing buffering capacity in in the PT and decreased urinary pH
When do you see "oval fat bodies"?
All causes of nephrotic syndrome (fatty casts)
When do you see waxy casts?
Advanced renal disease/chronic renal failure
What kind of kidney stone CANT you see on xray?
Uric acid
What kind of calcium stone predominates in basic vs acidic pHs?
Basic - phosphate. Acidic = oxalate
What kind of kidney stone forms hexagonal crystals?
Cystine stones
What 3 paraneoplastic hormones are secreted with RCC?
EPO, ACTH, PTHrP
Can you normally treat RCC with conventional chemo and radiation?
Nope, resistant. Treat with resection.
What is ethacrynic acid?
Loop diuretic - use in patiens with sulfa allergy who cant take lasix
What two diuretics cause acidemia?
CA inhibitors and K sparing diuretics (2/2 hyperkalemia and aldosterone blockade leading to decreased H+ secretion)
EM: "subepithelial immune complex humps"?
PSGN
Diffuse capillary and GBM thickening on LM, what GN?
Membranous GN
EM: "Spike and dome appearance with subepithelial deposits". What GN?
Membranous GN
EM: "Foot process effacement" What GN?
Minimal change dz
Selective loss of albumin, not globumins, 2/2 GBM polyanion loss What GN?
Minimal change dz
LM: "Congo red stains shows apple-green birefringence under polarized light" What GN?
Amyloidosis
LM: "Tram track appearance due to GBM splitting" what GN? (2)
Membranoproliferative GN and Alports
LM: "Intramembranous IC deposits" "dense deposits" what GN?
Membranoproliferative GN
What GN is associated with HBV and HCV?
Membranoproliferative GN
Non enzymatic glycosylation of GBM and efferent arterioles what GN?
Diabetic GN
IF: "granular appearance due to IgG, IgM and C3 deposition along GBM and mesangium"
PSGN
linear immunofrluorescence what GN?
Goodpasteurs
What type of GN is Goodpasteurs?
Rapidly progressing GN (crescentic)
EM: "GBM disruptions and fibrin deposition" What GN?
RPGN - Goodpasteurs
LM: "wire looping of capilaries" what GN?
Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
What 2 things cause diffuse proliferative GN?
SLE and MPGN
eosinophillic glomerulosclerosis (Kimmelstiel Wilson lesions) what kidney problem?
Diabetic nephropathy!
Diffuse glomerular hypercellularity 2/2 increased mesangial cell proliferation and leaukocyte infiltration "lumpy bumpy" what GN?
PSGN
What tirggers minimal change dz?
Recent infeciton or immune rxn (allergic rxn ex: bees)
What GN is associated with HIV infection, heroin abuse, and obesity?
FSGS
Segmental sclerosis and hyalinosis what GN?
FSGS
What GN is related to HSP?
Berger's dz (IgA nephropathy)
Mutation in type IV collagen messing up GBM. What GN?
Alports