Fig. 9.1 Case presentation: MRI, coronal section, revealing heterogeneous right renal mass Basic Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Kidney Cancer Kidney cancer or RCC is the eighth most common cancer…
Fig. 15.1 Electrolyte abnormalities associated with obstruction and post obstruction Case # 1 Follow-Up and Discussion The patient presented with newly diagnosed lymphoma as seen in the CT scan shows…
Laboratory TLS: two or more of (within − 3 to + 7 days relative to treatment) Clinical symptoms (any of) Clinical I Clinical II Clinical III Clinical IV Uric acid >8 mg/dL (476 µmol/L)…
Fig. 3.1 Membranous Nephropathy (original magnification ×600, trichrome stain). Glomerulus displaying membranous features with fuchsinophilic subepithelial deposits. (Source: Jhaveri KD, Shah HH, Calderon K, Campenot ES, Radhakrishnan J. Glomerular diseases seen…
Fig. 7.1 The principal participants in normal bone remodelling include three cell types (bone marrow stromal cells, osteoblasts [OB], and osteoclasts [OC]) and three proteins (receptor activator of nuclear factor…
Drug CrCl 60–46 mL/min CrCl 45–30 mL/min CrCl 29–10 mL/min Dialysis Nephrotoxicity presentation/comments Arsenic trioxide No adjustment needed No adjustment needed Drug exposure may be higher, monitor for toxicity, and lower doses may…
Invitation to assess readiness to have conversation: “Can we talk about how things have been going with your kidney disease?” Using open-ended “big-picture” questions to assess care goals and preferences:…
Cancer type SIR Observed incidence/100,000 person-years Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 7.54 194 Lung 1.97 173 Liver 11.56 120 Kidney 4.65 97 Colorectum 1.24 80.9 Melanoma 2.38 49.2 Thyroid 2.95 30.7 Urinary bladder…
Class Examples Kidney toxicity Antiangiogenic therapy Bevacizumab, sunitinib, sorafenib, pazopanib, everolimus Hypertension, proteinuria, TMA, AKI EGFR inhibitors Cetuximab, erlotinib, gefitinib, lapatinib, panitumumab Hypomagnesemia, hypokalemia Multifunctional TKIs Imatinib, dasatinib, ponatinib, bosutinib…
Fig. 12.1 Thrombotic microangiopathy. The figure showing changes of TMA (a hematoxylin and eosin stain, b periodic acid-Schiff stain) with peripheral capillary wall thickening and focal glomerular basement membrane duplication….
