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Pathology Renal MCQ Answers

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions about renal pathophysiology. The questions cover topics like manifestations of renal failure, pathogenesis of post-infectious glomerulonephritis, common causes of diseases like nephrotic syndrome and renal artery stenosis. The correct answers are indicated by a check mark. The questions assess knowledge of renal anatomy, physiology and disease processes.

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Pathology Renal MCQ Answers

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions about renal pathophysiology. The questions cover topics like manifestations of renal failure, pathogenesis of post-infectious glomerulonephritis, common causes of diseases like nephrotic syndrome and renal artery stenosis. The correct answers are indicated by a check mark. The questions assess knowledge of renal anatomy, physiology and disease processes.

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RENAL PATH MCQS

1. This manifestation of renal failure is usually due to uraemia:

A: encephalopathy ✓
B: hyperphosphataemia
C: hypertension
D: oedema

2. What is most important in the pathogenesis of post-infectious glomerulonephritis?

A: activation of alternative complement pathway


B: anti-basement membrane antibodies
C: direct podocyte injury
D: immune complex formation ✓

3. A previously well child presents with generalised oedema. You diagnose nephrotic
syndrome. The most likely underlying disease is:

A: dense deposit disease


B: focal & segmental glomerulosclerosis
C: membranous nephropathy
D: minimal change disease ✓

4. A man with poorly-controlled hypertension develops renal failure. What pathological lesion
is causing this?

A: corticomedullary scarring
B: fibromuscular dysplasia
C: hyperplastic arteriolitis ✓
D: papillary necrosis

5. A patient is resuscitated from cardiac arrest & his creatinine begins to rise. Which part of
his nephron is most vulnerable to damage by ischaemia?

A: ascending limb of the loop of Henle ✓


B: distal convoluted tubule
C: glomerulus
D: proximal convoluted tubule

6. An elderly man develops acute pyelonephritis. The most common underlying cause is

A: haematogenous spread of infection


B: malformation of the vesicoureteric junction
C: stasis of urine in the bladder ✓
D: ureteric obstruction
7. A patient is referred from TB clinic. She has been taking rifampicin and has developed
fever, rash and renal impairment. She has:

A: haemolytic uraemic syndrome


B: Ig A nephropathy
C: interstitial nephritis ✓
D: light chain cast nephropathy

8. What is the most common cause of renal artery stenosis?

A: atherosclerosis ✓
B: dissection
C: fibromuscular dysplasia
D: vasculitis

9. What is the most common cause of renal calculi?

A: idiopathic hypercalciuria ✓
B: hypercalcaemia
C: hyperuricosuria
D: infection

10. A complication of acute pyelonephritis in diabetic patients is:

A: chronic pyelonephritis
B: haemorrhagic cystitis
C: papillary necrosis ✓
D: tubular injury

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