BUN 6 - 25 HIGH DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF ELEVATED BUN

Acute Renal Failure

     Prerenal

          Hypovolemia

          Decreased Cardiac Output

               Congestive Heart Failure

               Myocardial Infarction

               Arrythmia

               Cardiac Tamponade

          Renal Artery Stenosis           

     Renal

          Acute Tubular Necrosis

          Rhabdomyolysis

         Acute Interstitial Nephritis

         Vasculitis

               Wegener's Granulomatosis

               Microscopic Polyangiitis

               Churg-Strauss Syndrome

          Goodpasture's Syndrome 

          Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

         Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis

         Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis

         Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis

         HIV-Associated Nephropathy

         Membranous Nephropathy

         Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

         Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis 

     Postrenal

         Prostatic Obstruction

               Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

               Prostate Cancer

               Urethral Stricture 

Chronic Renal Failure

Hepatorenal Syndrome

Increased Protein Absorption

     High Protein Diet

     Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Medications

     Corticosteroids

     Tetracyclines (decreases hepatic protein synthesis and increases hepatic deamination of amino acids)

Tissue Trauma

Pancreatitis

Addisons Disease

Multiple Myeloma

Renal Artery Stenosis