FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016

POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
NEPRHOLOGY
PAPER III
NEPHRO/D/16/20/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. CRRT:
Indications
Compare CRRT with intermittent HD and SLED
Complications of CRRT

2. Cross match testing in renal transplantation:
Methods and recent advances
PRA
6+4
3. Enumerate inherited diseases associated with a cystic
phenotype.
Genetics of ADPKD.
Recent trends in the management of ADPKD.

4. Classification of causes of tubulo-interstitial diseases of
kidney.
Crystal deposition diseases.
IgG4 related renal diseases.

5. What is CKD of undetermined etiology?
Its global scenario.
Its Indian scenario,
Heat stress nephropathy.

6. Renal involvement in the following diseases:
Antiphospholipid syndrome.
Sickle cell disease.
Progressive systemic sclerosis.

7. Risk factors for nephrolithiasis:
Dietary
Urinary
Genetic

P.T.O.
FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016

POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
NEPRHOLOGY
PAPER III
8. Classification of dialyzer membranes.
Reactions to the hemodylsis membranes.
High cut off dialysis membranes.

9. Peritoneal dialysis adequacy:
Definition
K/DOQI guidelines
CANUSA and ADEMEX trials

10. Implantable Renal Assist Device.
Ethical issues in xeno transplantation.
0by25 initiative.