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PTH7000

, Capillaries




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Urinary systems :
LU 4
Arteriole

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Renal vein pyramid
Ure ther & bladder nephrons :
Renal
artery

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Filters waste products from the blood Renal
Reabsorbs pelvis

water
& nutrients

Secrete excess substances in form of urine .




Medulla

Ureter
The kidney filters 190L Of
glomerular Renal fascia and cortex
blood each excreted
day Only .
1-21 is cortex
in the form of urine .




> 99% Of water reabsorbed into the tubular blood

formation starts in the glomerulus / capillaries with thin walls & large surface area )

Blood pressure in than in This
glomerulus is higher Bowman 's capsule surrounding it . causes
filtration of fluid which contains red blood lit nephron
no protein or cells is healthy ) .




Proceeds to tubule H2O and all the
proximal where larger amount of almost nutrients

are reabsorbed into the blood .




Keeps the osmotic pressure of the body constant .




hormone ( ADH ) in the
2 Hormones in control Antidiuretic =
post pituitary gland &
Aldosterone in the adrenal
glands .




from proximal tubule
,
fluid flows to the loop of Henle for reabsorption of H2O & salts .




Thereafter , concentrated urine is excreted .




Urine passes from collecting tubules into calyces
renal
,
then renal pelvis
& ureters into the
bladder lresevoir for urine !

Bladder : Can store ± 250mi urine in normal
a person .




If values where urine enter the bladder do not function =
vesicoureteval reflux .




Kidneys also produce red blood cells & control the blood pressure .

, Congenital/Hereditary Diseases
Unilateral renal agenesis ( solitary kidney ) or

bilateral renal agenesis ( no kidney ) :




Rare condition 11 in 1000 births )
Before diagnosis exclude a non -
functional
,
'
other '

kidney or prior nephrectomy .




True renal
agenesis Ure ther :
& part of the
bladder is also missing .




Ultrasound & CT : solitary kidney is larger
than reflect
usual to compensatory
hypertrophy
Bilateral renal
agenesis
: when both kidneys E
o

fail to develop Often detected fetal
.
on s


fluid *
Ultrasound due to lack of amniotic *

(
Oligohydramnios ) .

E

Of babies will £
40-1 .
be stillborn ,
otherwise *


baby will only live a few hours .




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E
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Supernumerary kidney ( 3rd kidney ) :




Usually small and
rudimentary
functions as normal ,
but causes secondary infections .




Thus it 's removed most of the times .




Hypoplastic kidney :




Miniature of normal
replica kidney .




Normal function
Must be differentiated from
acquired atrophic
kidney .




Small & contracted from vascular or inflammatory
disease .
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