Kidney Pathophysiology fully solved 2024/2025

Kidney PathophysiologyAcute Kidney Injury - correct answer rapid decline in renal filtration function with potential for reversibility (if caught early on) How is renal function assessed? - correct answer glomerular filtration rate and creatinine clearance What is the movement from glomerulus to nephrons? - correct answer Filtration Chronic Kidney Disease - correct answer progressive and irreversible decline in kidney function What are nephron? What do they do? - correct answer structural and functional unit of kidneys; they filter substances from the blood and reabsorb electrolytes and water to help maintain a steady blood pH level What are categories of Acute kidney Injury? - correct answer Prerenal (before the kidneys), Intrinsic (in the kidneys), Postrenal (after the kidneys) Prerenal AKI - correct answer adaptive response to severe volume depletion and hypotension; involves structurally intact nephrons What could cause prerenal AKI? - correct answer loop diuretics, dehydration, congestive heart failure, liver cirrhosis Intrinsic AKI - correct answer cytotoxic, ischemic (starving kidneys from oxygen), inflammatory insult; involves structural and functional damage