*Starting dialysis requires shared decision making and consideration about quality of life factors.
*Starting dialysis requires shared decision making and consideration about quality of life factors.
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*No need for urine culture in non-pregnant women with UTI symptoms. Treat empirically.
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*Lupus nephritis is diagnosed with renal biopsy.
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*Management of pregnant patients with UTI, '''get a urine culture, treat empirically with fosfomycin, augmenting, or cefpodoxime (3rd gen)'''
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*Thiazide diuretics decrease the risk of calcium oxalate stones and calcium phosphate stones by '''increasing renal reabsorption of calcium (thereby lowering the concentration of calcium in the urine'''.
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*Treat acute prostatitis with '''empiric antibiotics and bladder decompression (usually suprapubic catheter)'''
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*Following renal transplant, there is an increased risk of '''diabetes (within months) and osteoporosis (later on)'''.
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*Criteria for inpatient management of kidney stones: '''urinary infection, AKI, complete obstruction, intractable pain/nausea/vomiting.'''
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*PSGN has a worse prognosis in adults and is more likely to lead to [[CKD]]