What are the steps of nephrotic syndrome? - Correct Answers
What is the relevant cause of calcium phosphate stones? - Correct Answers Increase in the pH
of urine
What is the relevant cause of calcium oxalate stones? - Correct Answers Increased excretion of
calcium, oxalis acid, and uric acid
What is the relevant cause of uric acid stones? - Correct Answers Acidic urine pH and low urine
output
What are signs of proteinuria? - Correct Answers Wasting of fat and muscle tissue, fluid
accumulation in abdominal cavity, increased concentration of fats in the blood,
hypoalbuminemia
What increases a persons chance of developing acute kidney disease? - Correct Answers
Uncontrolled type II diabetes, a BMI of 31, family history of kidney stones
Which manifestations suggest that a patient has entered end-stage renal disease? - Correct
Answers Urea present in blood, glomerular filtration less than 15 mL/min per 1.73m^2
The dietician sees a patient with phosphorus lev of 5.7 mg/dL. What will the dietician
recommend? - Correct Answers Increase intake of calcium rich foods, begin administration of
phosphate binders
What are sodium recommendations? - Correct Answers 2.4 g/day unless there's hypertension-
then 2.0 g/day
What is the minimum protein recommendation for those in end stage renal disease? - Correct
Answers 1.1 g/kg
, What is the recommended caloric intake for patients with chronic kidney disease stages 3-5,
undergoing hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis and those who have undergone kidney
transplantation - Correct Answers 25-35 kcal/kg per day
For someone with a kidney transplant who is prescribed corticosteroids, what nutrients do we
increase? - Correct Answers Protein, vitamin B6
What is the glomelular filtration rate in stage one chronic kidney disease? - Correct Answers 92
What stage does moderate proteinuria happen? - Correct Answers Stage 2
What stage is a glomelular filtration rate of 28? - Correct Answers Stage 4
What stage does uremia happen in? - Correct Answers Stage 5
A patient in End stage renal disease should have an increase of which nutrients? - Correct
Answers Protein, thiamin
What anatomic structure is a vascular component of a nephron? - Correct Answers Glomerulus
Which factor causes distorted kidney struggles tire and vascular damage in chronic kidney
disease? - Correct Answers Scarring of renal tissue
Which findings in the patient with chronic kidney disease are described by the term azotemia? -
Correct Answers Elevated blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, and serum uric acid levels
What is the relevant cause of calcium phosphate stones? - Correct Answers Increase in the pH
of urine
What is the relevant cause of calcium oxalate stones? - Correct Answers Increased excretion of
calcium, oxalis acid, and uric acid
What is the relevant cause of uric acid stones? - Correct Answers Acidic urine pH and low urine
output
What are signs of proteinuria? - Correct Answers Wasting of fat and muscle tissue, fluid
accumulation in abdominal cavity, increased concentration of fats in the blood,
hypoalbuminemia
What increases a persons chance of developing acute kidney disease? - Correct Answers
Uncontrolled type II diabetes, a BMI of 31, family history of kidney stones
Which manifestations suggest that a patient has entered end-stage renal disease? - Correct
Answers Urea present in blood, glomerular filtration less than 15 mL/min per 1.73m^2
The dietician sees a patient with phosphorus lev of 5.7 mg/dL. What will the dietician
recommend? - Correct Answers Increase intake of calcium rich foods, begin administration of
phosphate binders
What are sodium recommendations? - Correct Answers 2.4 g/day unless there's hypertension-
then 2.0 g/day
What is the minimum protein recommendation for those in end stage renal disease? - Correct
Answers 1.1 g/kg
, What is the recommended caloric intake for patients with chronic kidney disease stages 3-5,
undergoing hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis and those who have undergone kidney
transplantation - Correct Answers 25-35 kcal/kg per day
For someone with a kidney transplant who is prescribed corticosteroids, what nutrients do we
increase? - Correct Answers Protein, vitamin B6
What is the glomelular filtration rate in stage one chronic kidney disease? - Correct Answers 92
What stage does moderate proteinuria happen? - Correct Answers Stage 2
What stage is a glomelular filtration rate of 28? - Correct Answers Stage 4
What stage does uremia happen in? - Correct Answers Stage 5
A patient in End stage renal disease should have an increase of which nutrients? - Correct
Answers Protein, thiamin
What anatomic structure is a vascular component of a nephron? - Correct Answers Glomerulus
Which factor causes distorted kidney struggles tire and vascular damage in chronic kidney
disease? - Correct Answers Scarring of renal tissue
Which findings in the patient with chronic kidney disease are described by the term azotemia? -
Correct Answers Elevated blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, and serum uric acid levels
