Causes of jaundice

Question 1

How do cancer of head of pancreas and gallstones cause jaundice?

Answer 1

Get flow of bile back up into the liver

Question 2

Medical Doctors Aren’t Very Happy, Surgeons aren’t much better

Answer 2

Malignancy, Drugs (oral CP, IVDA, overdose), Alcohol, Viruses (Hep A, B, C, EMV and CMV), Haematological.
Stones, Antibiotics, Reabsorption of haematoma, Nodal Obstruction, Malignancy of pancreatic Head

Question 3

How does a gallstone blocking the ampulla cause pancreatitis

Answer 3

bile and pancreatic juice reflux in pancreas. Bile is an irritant

Question 4

IN more advanced cases of pancreatitis, vascular haemorrhage can occur, leading to blood/fluid collection in the retroperitoneal space. What are these signs called?

Answer 4

Grey Turners sign and cullens sign

Question 5

Jejunum and Ilium. Which is thicker and heavier and which is thinner and lighter? (way it sounds)

Answer 5

Jejunum thick and heavy

Ilium thinner and lighter

Question 6

blood supply to jejunum and ilium?

Answer 6

superior mesenteric artery

Question 7

What does bile help the digestion of?

Answer 7

fat.

Question 8

how are dietary fats carried?

Answer 8

chylomicrons

Question 9

fats (within chylomicrons) are then absorbed from intestinal cells into specialised lymph vessels called?

Answer 9

lacteals

Question 10

Eventually chylomicrons drain from the lymphatic system into the venous system. Where does this happen?

Answer 10

left venous angle