Renal medicine

Presentations

• Approach to acute kidney injury
• Urinary retention
  • Questions about urinary retention
• Haematuria
  • Questions about haematuria
• Nephrotic Syndrome
  • Questions about Nephrotic Syndrome

Conditions

• Acute kidney injury (AKI) / acute renal failure (ARF)
  • Clinical assessment of AKI
  • AKI clinical case (single best answer question)
  • Questions about AKI
• Hyperkalaemia
  • Questions about hyperkalaemia

Renal Genetics (click here for background)

• • Single gene glomerular disease
    • Alport’s syndrome
    • Steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome
    • Nail-patella syndrome
  • Cystic, interstitial and tumorous renal disease
    • Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
    • Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
    • Medullary cystic kidney disease
    • Tuberous sclerosis type 1 + 2
    • Von-Hippel-Lindau’s disease
    • Bardet-Biedl’s syndrome
  • Renal tubule and metabolic disease
    • Proximal renal tubular acidosis (RTA)
    • Distal RTA
    • Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
    • Cystinosis
    • Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome
    • Fabry’s disease
    • Bartter’s syndrome
    • Gitelman’s syndrome
    • Liddle’s syndrome
  • Genetic nephrolithiasis
    • Cystinuria
    • Hyperoxaluria
    • Dent’s disease
  • Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT)
    • Vesicoureteral reflux
    • Kallman’s syndrome

Pharmacology

• Diuretics
  • Furosemide