The Glomerulus | Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast
Dr. Mike Todorovic
4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Glomerulus (meaning ball of yarn) is a capillary network in the kidneys that decides what gets filtered from the blood into urine.Our kidneys need to filter 120mL per minute (or 180L per day) of blood in order to maintain the appropriate amount of salts, pH, waste, and other components in the blood. If this membrane is damaged or disrupted, patient health can rapidly decline.
What is the glomerulus? How does it work? How can it be damaged? What are some diseases of the glomerulus?
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| 0:00.0 | Maddie, a kidney stone walks into a bar. |
| 0:03.1 | Bartender says, what do you have? |
| 0:04.6 | And the kidney stone says, |
| 0:05.6 | oh, nothing, thanks. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm just passing through. |
| 0:08.9 | What's with your old bar jokes? |
| 0:10.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:11.2 | I drink too much. |
| 0:13.0 | You know what we're talking about today? |
| 0:15.1 | I thought it was glomerilus. |
| 0:16.5 | We are. |
| 0:16.9 | We're talking about glomerilus and glomerial filtration rate. But, you know, I think that urine over your head. |
| 0:57.9 | We're Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr Matt Matt and Dr. Mike's medical podcast. |
| 1:03.5 | Today we are discussing, as Mattie said, glomerilus and the glomerula filtration rate. |
| 1:09.7 | Now, before we begin, we should probably recap a little bit about the kidneys. |
| 1:11.7 | Even though we've done a podcast on this, I think we might set the scene again, talk about the kidneys for a few minutes and the location of the |
| 1:17.8 | glomerulus. Matty, you want to set the scene? |
| 1:22.0 | Of the glomerulus or the kidney? |
| 1:23.6 | Kidney. And we'll move our way through. We'll start macroscopically and we'll start moving in |
| 1:29.2 | microscopically and focus on the glomerulus. All right. So we've got two kidneys, okay, located in the |
| 1:36.6 | deep abdomen. Their primary job is to filter our blood, maintain our electrolytes, maintain our |
| 1:44.0 | body fluids and remove waste. |
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