A 70-year-old man presents with rising creatinine (baseline 90 µmol/L, now 200 µmol/L) one week after starting an ACE inhibitor and NSAID for osteoart...

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A 70-year-old man presents with rising creatinine (baseline 90 µmol/L, now 200 µmol/L) one week after starting an ACE inhibitor and NSAID for osteoarthritis. He is volume depleted from diarrhoea. What is the most likely cause of his acute kidney injury?

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Pre-renal AKI due to reduced renal perfusion and nephrotoxic drugs

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Intrinsic glomerulonephritis

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Post-renal obstruction

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Contrast-induced nephropathy

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Chronic kidney disease progression

au-racgp MCQ (SBA): Acute kidney injury

A 70-year-old man presents with rising creatinine (baseline 90 µmol/L, now 200 µmol/L) one week after starting an ACE inhibitor and NSAID for osteoarthritis. He is volume depleted from diarrhoea. What is the most likely cause of his acute kidney injury?