Biliary Tract Disease Flashcards
What causes BLACK PIGMENT gallstones?
HEMOLYSIS (prosthetic AVR, cirrhosis, sickle cell, spherocytosis)
TERMINAL ILEAL resection or disease (CHROHN’s), OCP’s ESTROGEN, OCTREOTIDE, VAGOTOMY can all cause what biliary disease?
CHOLESTEROL GALLSTONES
Why can BROWN PIGMENT (cholesterol) stones be found in patients with periamullary DIVERTICULA?
Biliary STASIS
What is RECOMMENDED in a patient with presumed BILIARY PANCREATITIS who likely PASSED their stone and has GB stones?
CHOLECYSTECTOMY - next available
T.Bili & Alk Phos WNL, CD obstruction, RUQ and EPIGASTRIC abd pain for hours to days?
Acute CHOLANGITIS
In a patient with gallstones and biliary colic, whom refuses the recommended LAP CHOLY, what is an alternative that is EFFECTIVE for SMALL STONES but stones RECUR 50% of the time?
URSO
On imaging, pt has a GB POLYP >1 cm or they have PSC and a GB POLYP >8 mm, whats the NEXT step?
CHOLECYSTECTOMY
On imaging, pt has a GB POLYP < 1 cm and no PSC, whats the NEXT step?
US every 6 MONTHS for 1-2 YEARS
Fundus of GB with DEEP SINUSES and muscular HYPERPLASIA that should only be treated if SYMTPOMATIC?
ADENOMYOMATOSIS
What process is ASSOCIATED with CHOLESTEROL POLYPS in the GB?
CHOLESTEROLOSIS (macrophages with fat)
What DISEASE is GB CANCER (5 yr 10% survival) closely associated with?
PSC (IBD, anomalous pancreaticobiliary junction, gallstones, adenomatous polyps, chronic SALMONELLA, porcelain GB, adenomyomatosis)
Acute ASCENDING CHOLANGITIS no matter how sick (acidotic, hypoxic, hypotensive on pressors, septic) requires what besides antibiotics?
ERCP < 48 HRS
if SEPTIC in < 24 HRS
TRANSFER for ERCP if?
-Imaging shows CBD stone
OR
-T.Bili >4 AND dilated CBD (>6 mm pre-choly or >8 mm post-choly)
OR
-ASCENDING CHOLANGITIS
Abnormal LFTs, Age >55 yo, CBD dilation?
EUS or MRCP or Lap Choly w/IOC
If a patient ONLY has presentation of BILIARY COLIC but nothing else, whats the recommendation?
Lap CHOLY, no IOC
Recommendation for removal of >1 cm CBD stones via ERCP?
Sphincterotomy + Balloon Dilation or mechanical lithotripsy or plastic stent + URSO 6 weeks - 6 months
FUSIFORM CBD with ANOMAOUS union of the PANCRETIC duct to the CBD can cause which cancers EXCEPT HCC?
GB cancer
Cholangiocarcinoma
Pancreatic cancer
Easter ASIA (China, Japan, Korea), pain, jaundice, pancreatitis, PALPABLE MASS and almost ALL associated with ANOMALOUS pancreatico-biliary JUNCTION?
CHOLEDOCHAL CYST
Which is the ONLY CHOLEDOCHAL CYST type that has NOT risk of CANCER and is treated by SPHINCTEROTOMY?
TYPE 3 (A & B)
Which is the ONLY CHOLEDOCHAL CYST type that is called CAROLI’s disease?
TYPE 5 (multiple cysts)
Which are the TWO CHOLEDOCHAL CYST types that have MULTIPLE cyts?
TYPES 4 & 5
Post CHOLY pt has BILE LEAK but CD is stapled SHUT, whare is it coming from?
RIGHT HEPATIC DUCT abnormal communication with the GB - DUCT of LUSHKA
How is a BILE LEAK best treated?
ERCP with PLASTIC stent placement for 4 WEEKS or SPHINCTEROTOMY (if there is large biloma also needs percutaneous drain)
WHEN should a patient with UNCOMPLICATED ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS undergo CHOLECYSTECTOMY?
SAME HOSPITALIZATION
WHEN should you do an ERCP in a patient with ACUTE BILIARY PANCREATITIS?
< 48 HRS if OBSTRUCTED or CHOLANGITIS
>48 HRS without these complicating factors
In a patient that is a POOR SURGICAL CANDIDATE with ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS, what can be done?
EUS-guided GB drainage (AXIOS)
Majority (75%) of biliary strictures in adults are what?
MALIGNANT
When performing EUS/FNA/FNB, what is PREFERRED when biopsying suspected pancreatic CANCER?
EUS/FNB or EUS/FNA with ROSE (Rapid on-Site Cytology Evaluation)
What is the RECOMMENDED EUS approach to a suspected HILAR CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA?
EUS/FNB/FNA of associated LYMPHADENOPAHTY not of the primary mass itself because it SEEDS the peritoneum
What is the BEST approach to SAMPLING a biliary STRICTURE for diagnosis?
MULTIMODAL: brush cytology, fluoro-guided forceps biopsy, cholangioscopy-guided biopsies, FISH, confocal microscopy, gene sequencing
What MUST you obtain PRIOR to an ERCP for a biliary STRICTURE?
PRE-PROCEDURAL IMAGING (inject only which liver segments you will attempt to drain - at least 50% of viable liver)
Whenever performing an ERCP for HILAR or INTRAHEPATIC biliary STRICTURES, what MUST be done prior?
PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS