HY USMLE Q #1647 – Renal — Transcript
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- 0:00How's it going, guys? Past little
- 0:01question for renal, 53-year-old dude,
- 0:03TKA ecchymosis on his forearms, mild
- 0:05bilateral pedal edema. And then we have
- 0:07a renal biopsy, which I'll talk about as
- 0:09we move through on choice A.
- 0:11What's most likely to be seen in this
- 0:12patient? What the [ __ ] am I saying?
- 0:14What's most likely to be seen in this
- 0:15patient, choice A?
- 0:17BUN to creatinine ratio of 22 is wrong,
- 0:19so BUN to creatinine ratio greater than
- 0:2220 means pre-renal azotemia, which
- 0:25doesn't relate to this image here.
- 0:27Pre-renal azotemia would be something
- 0:29causing decreased renal blood flow, like
- 0:32chronic NSAID use,
- 0:34diuretic use, chronic heart failure, can
- 0:38be dehydration, uh vomiting, diarrhea
- 0:41over many days. But when you have
- 0:43decreased renal blood flow, the PCT is
- 0:45going to try to reabsorb fluid to
- 0:47compensate, and it accomplishes that by
- 0:50increasing sodium and urea retention. So
- 0:55by pulling those out of the urine, water
- 0:57follows, so blood urea
- 1:00nitrogen goes up,
- 1:02and fractional excretion of sodium in
- 1:04the urine goes down under 1% since
- 1:06you're pulling it out of the urine. It's
- 1:07pre-renal azotemia. Can do a lengthy
- 1:10seminar on it, but we've got a renal
- 1:12problem here. If anything, this would be
- 1:14intrarenal, not pre-renal. Wrong [ __ ]
- 1:17answer.
- 1:21Choice B,
- 1:221+ blood urine dipstick, negative RBCs
- 1:25high powered field is wrong. This is
- 1:26going to be rhabdomyolysis.
- 1:28Now, if you've gone through my renal
- 1:30playlist, you'll know I've said that
- 1:31three to four RBCs per high powered
- 1:34field is also considered negative. I've
- 1:36made clips on it.
- 1:37Okay, it shows up on one of the surgery
- 1:39forms for 2CK, but you guys studying for
- 1:41Step 1, it's the same deal. You just
- 1:43need to know that zero to four RBCs per
- 1:46high powered field is negative.
- 1:48Rhabdomyolysis,
- 1:50when you have muscle breakdown, you
- 1:51release myoglobin into the blood,
- 1:53and the urine dipstick cannot
- 1:56differentiate
- 1:58free myoglobin
- 2:00from the hemoglobin that's in RBCs. So,
- 2:04it registers blood on the dipstick,
- 2:07but
- 2:08when you do microscopy, light
- 2:10microscopy, it's negative for RBCs when
- 2:12you have rhabdo. So, it's picking up the
- 2:14myoglobin. It's called false positive on
- 2:17a false positive blood on your urine
- 2:19dipstick.
- 2:21Wrong [ __ ] answer.
- 2:25Choice C. And it should just be noted
- 2:27alcoholism big cause of rhabdomyolysis.
- 2:30And they like giving this to you where a
- 2:33patient can have acute tubular necrosis.
- 2:35So, if you're forced to choose the renal
- 2:36diagnosis the setting of rhabdo, it's
- 2:39ATN. Choice C.
- 2:411+ blood urine dipstick positive RBCs
- 2:44high powered field. So, it's not an
- 2:46exact number you have to memorize. Could
- 2:48be 10, could be 20, 50.
- 2:50I just told you that 0 to 4 is negative.
- 2:52So, we clearly have positivity here.
- 2:54This could be any nephritic syndrome.
- 2:58This is a nephritic syndrome this
- 2:59diagnosis. We look at this image which
- 3:01as I said I'll explain I'm just being an
- 3:03[ __ ] not revealing it right away, but
- 3:06if you have let's say post-streptococcal
- 3:07glomerulonephritis,
- 3:09any of the vasculitides like Wegener,
- 3:13Churg-Strauss, microscopic polyangiitis,
- 3:15Goodpasture,
- 3:16Alport syndrome, mutation type 4
- 3:18collagen, IgA nephropathy. Okay, so when
- 3:21we talk about nephritic syndromes, you
- 3:24got to see a little bit of blood in the
- 3:25urine.
- 3:27Wrong [ __ ] answer.
- 3:30Choice D insulin resistance correct
- 3:31answer. Very
- 3:33easy.
- 3:34You're looking at Kimmelstiel-Wilson
- 3:35nodules. It's pass level.
- 3:37So, you see this image, you just say,
- 3:39"Okay, well
- 3:40we're looking at the pink These look
- 3:42like pink circles, don't they?"
- 3:44So, these are hyaline accumulations
- 3:46Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules. This is
- 3:48diabetic glomerulosclerosis.
- 3:51And in type 2 diabetes, insulin
- 3:53resistance is the mechanism for that.
- 3:56And you're not going to have blood in
- 3:58the urine because it's nephrotic
- 3:59syndrome.
- 4:00So, you have to know which conditions
- 4:02have blood in urine, which conditions
- 4:03don't. So, I told you that in nephritic
- 4:05syndromes a moment ago.
- 4:06Nephrotic syndromes, membranous
- 4:08glomerulonephropathy.
- 4:10And you have
- 4:11uh renal amyloidosis, multiple myeloma,
- 4:13you've got diabetic glomerulosclerosis
- 4:16as you have here, focal segmental
- 4:18glomerulosclerosis, minimal change
- 4:20disease. So, these are highly nephrotic
- 4:21syndromes.
- 4:22So, some of you say, "Wait, what's going
- 4:25on with the
- 4:26uh PT/INR, ecchymoses? Can you explain
- 4:28that?" Okay, I'll get there in a second.
- 4:31Relax, all right? So, the the mild
- 4:34bilateral pedal edema, obviously that's
- 4:35from the nephrotic syndrome, decreased
- 4:37intravascular oncotic pressure cuz
- 4:39you're losing the albumin in the urine.
- 4:41So, you're just going to have
- 4:42extravasation, transudation into the
- 4:44interstitia. Now, choice C, wrong
- 4:46[ __ ] answer, normal platelet count
- 4:48150 to 450,000 per microliter. So,
- 4:51obviously this is thrombocytopenia.
- 4:53You need to know that in renal failure
- 4:55you can get something called uremic
- 4:57platelet dysfunction.
- 5:00Okay? I make clips on it, go through my
- 5:01YouTube. So, high BUN in the setting of
- 5:05renal failure can cause a qualitative
- 5:08dysfunction of platelets.
- 5:10It's not a quantitative issue, it's a
- 5:12qualitative issue.
- 5:14So, BUN causes platelets to malfunction.
- 5:18And you're going to have an increased
- 5:20bleeding time, up arrow bleeding time,
- 5:23but normal platelet count. Holy [ __ ]
- 5:25It's the first time you're hearing it,
- 5:27sounds weird, okay? Cuz if you get it as
- 5:28an arrow question, you see something
- 5:30like this, you'd be like, "Oh, like, you
- 5:32know, increased bleeding time and then
- 5:34decreased platelets." Wrong [ __ ]
- 5:36answer, okay? It's increased bleeding
- 5:38time, no change platelets. You're like,
- 5:39"Wait, why?"
- 5:41And you learn, okay, it's called uremic
- 5:42platelet dysfunction. It's a qualitative
- 5:44problem with platelets. Platelet count's
- 5:46not low, and you can that in renal
- 5:47failure.
- 5:48It's another reason why patients who
- 5:50have uh uremia,
- 5:52which is the the word that means renal
- 5:54failure,
- 5:55why patients who have uremia need
- 5:57dialysis if they're going into surgery
- 5:58in particular because they'll get
- 6:00excessive bleeding cuz their platelets
- 6:02aren't working properly.
- 6:04So,
- 6:05thrombocytopenia,
- 6:08wrong [ __ ] answer.
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