Test Bank Questions and Answers for Acute Pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome 100% Pass
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Glomerulonephritis
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Glomerulonephritis
Test Bank Questions and Answers for Acute Pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome 100% Pass
What is acute pyelonephritis? - Answers Inflammation of renal parenchyma (renal pelvis) & collecting system---Kidney infection
What are S/S of kidney infection? - Answers mild fatigue, chill...
Test Bank Questions and Answers for Acute Pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome
100% Pass
What is acute pyelonephritis? - Answers Inflammation of renal parenchyma (renal pelvis) & collecting
system---Kidney infection
What are S/S of kidney infection? - Answers mild fatigue, chills, fever, vomiting, flank pain, kidney
tenderness
s/s subside in few days, do tests to make sure it's cleared up
What are preexisting factors of acute pyelonephritis? - Answers Lower UTI, backward movement from
lower to upper, going up ureters to kidney, urinary stones, hurting lower UTI, pregnancy induced
changes
What are risks for developing kidney infection? - Answers ...
How is acute pyelonephritis diagnosed? - Answers History, assess for flank pain
Physical exam---palpation for costovertebral angle (CVA) pain
Lab tests---urinalysis (pyuria, bacteriauria, hematuria), urine for culture/sensitivity, CBC with
differential(leukocytes)
Blood culture (if bacteremia is suspected)---urosepsis? very sick with this, kidney infection turns into
urosepsis
Ultrasound
CT scan
Complications of Acute pyelonephritis? - Answers Urosepsis
What is urosepsis? - Answers Commonly starts in renal medulla spreads to adjacent cortex, cause scars,
poorly functioning kidneys, chronic pyelonephritis
-Systemic infection from urologic source
-Prompt dx/tx is critical
-Can lead to septic shock and death *urosepsis*
-Septic shock
What is septic shock? - Answers outcome of unresolved bacteremia involving gram-negative organism
What is drug therapy for acute pyelonephritis? - Answers Antibiotics---parenteral in hospital to rapidly
establish high drug levels, if sick enough for IV
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