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✔✔Type 2 diabetes - ✔✔usually presents in adults with HTN and obesity
Cells in the body do not react to the insulin
Genetic Predisposition
Insulin Resistance/Relative insulin deficiency
✔✔Medications that cause diabetes - ✔✔Glucocoriticoids
(Given in asthma and Crohn's Disease
✔✔dysuria - ✔✔subjective experience of painful or burnign on urination
✔✔Dysuria Cause - ✔✔inflammation
bladder/urethral infection
most common cause is lower UTI
✔✔Medications that can cause dysuria - ✔✔SSRI
opiates
Scopalamine
✔✔Less common causes of dysuris - ✔✔Tumors
, Renal Failure
Nephrolithiasis
STIs
✔✔Heamuturia Diagnostically - ✔✔3 RBCs or more per high powered field
✔✔Transient Hematuria - ✔✔Occurs on one occasion
✔✔Persistent - ✔✔occurs on two or more occosion
✔✔Substances that can mock hematuria - ✔✔Beets
✔✔Substances that can be related to hematuria - ✔✔caffeine, spices, tomatoes,
chocolate, alcholol, citurs, soy sauce
✔✔medications that cause hematuria - ✔✔Beta-lactam antibiotics, sulfonamides,
NSAIDs, Cipro, allopurinol, tagamet, dilantin
✔✔Any hematuria in a male over 50 requires? - ✔✔further work up
✔✔What indicates hematuria is of renal origin? - ✔✔Casts
✔✔What does proteinuria mean? - ✔✔Typically indicates renal pathology, specifically
glmerular in origin
✔✔Mild Transient Proteinuria can result from? - ✔✔Fever, CHF, acute pulmonary
edema, head injury, or stroke
Proteinuria will improve as the patient's condition improves
✔✔Bence Jones Proteins - ✔✔present in MM, lymphosarcoma, leukemia, and
Hodgkin's disease
✔✔Intermittent Proteinuria is often? - ✔✔Asymptomatic and benign
✔✔Continuous Proteinuria is often? - ✔✔Renal Pathology
✔✔Best test for proteinuria? - ✔✔24 hour urine
more than 160mg of urine is abnormal
✔✔3.5g of protein - ✔✔indicative of nephrotic disease
✔✔When should a patient be refered to a nephrologist? - ✔✔If the protein excretion
rate is above 3.0-3.5 grams/ day
which indicates nephrotic syndrome