03-29-2007, 03:33 PM
A 30 year old female presents with recurrent urinary tract infections. A renal sonogram shows extensive scarring with pelvic and calyceal enlargement and cortical thinning. A renal biopsy reveals inflammatory infiltrates extending frommedulla to cortex, with tubular destruction and fibrosis. Lymphocytes, plasma cells and occasional neutrophils are present. These findings most likely resulted from..
A) Benign nephrosclerosis
B) Vesicoureteral reflux
C) Luppus nepthritis
D) Systemic amyloidosis
E) Congestive heart failure
A 19 year old female presents with fever and chills accompanied by right flank pain for the past three days. She is not diabetic, and her BP is 150/90. Urinalysis shows a pH of 6.5 specific gravity of 1.018 no protien, no blood, no glucose, and no ketones. Urine micorscopic examination shows many WBC's and WBC casts. which of the following factors is most important in the pathogenesis fo the renal disease affecting this patient?
A age
B sex
C Vesicoureteral reflex
D BP
E A focus of infection in the lungs
A) Benign nephrosclerosis
B) Vesicoureteral reflux
C) Luppus nepthritis
D) Systemic amyloidosis
E) Congestive heart failure
A 19 year old female presents with fever and chills accompanied by right flank pain for the past three days. She is not diabetic, and her BP is 150/90. Urinalysis shows a pH of 6.5 specific gravity of 1.018 no protien, no blood, no glucose, and no ketones. Urine micorscopic examination shows many WBC's and WBC casts. which of the following factors is most important in the pathogenesis fo the renal disease affecting this patient?
A age
B sex
C Vesicoureteral reflex
D BP
E A focus of infection in the lungs