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Clinical-Esophageal Disorders 2 Flashcards

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What is Zenker Diverticulum

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Faisal diverticulum involving herniation between the cricopharyngeaus muscle and the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscles

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What area does Zenker diverticulum occur and what is the method used for diagnosis

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Killian’s triangle and found using a Barium swallow

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What are the symptoms of a peptic stricture

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Gradual development of solid food dysphagia with reduction of heartburn (stricture acts as a barrier)

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What is the diagnosis used for peptic strictures

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Endoscopy with biopsy in all cases

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What is the common patient demographics in the case of squamous cell carcinoma

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Older than 50, African American males, who drinks, smokes, and lots hot beverages

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What are the drugs that commonly cause pill esophagitis

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NSAIDs, potassium chloride pills, alendronate, risedronate, antibiotics

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What are the most common pathogens leading to infectious esophagitis

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Candida albicans, herpes simplex, CMV

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What is the pathogenesis of large, shallow, superficial ulcerations in the esophagus

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CMV

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What is the pathogenesis of small, multiple deep ulcerations in the esophagus

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Herpes Simplex

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What is the pathogenesis of diffuse, linear, yellow-white plaques and the esophagus mucosa

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Candida

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In the case of patients with caustic esophageal injury (usually doe to direct ingestion) what is the first initial examination

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-Circulatory status and airway patency, laryngoscopy for mucosal assessment

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What should not be administered in patients with caustic esophageal injury

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-Nasogastric lovage or oral antibiotics

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What is the state of surveillence in a patient after caustic esophageal injury

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15-20 years after due to increased risk adenocarcinoma

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In the case of eosinophilic esophagitis, what is the cause and what is the setoff usually

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Food or environmental allergens cause and stimulate and inflammatory response

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In patients of eiosinophilic esophagitis, what previous conditions tend to be present in 50% of patients

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  • Asthma
  • Eczema
  • Hay fever
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What are complications seen with eosinophilic esophagitis

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-*Food impaction can cause long history of dysphagia

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What are the diagnostic findings in the physical and lab tests

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-Increased IgE along with multiple concentric rings

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What are the findings of the endoscopy in eosinophilic esophagitis

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White exudate or papules, red furrows, concentric rings, and strictures

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What is the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis

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Corticosteroids

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How are esophageal webs best visualized

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Barium esophagigram

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How are the majority of esophageal webs treated

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Passage of bougie dilators

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What condition is almost always associated with esophageal rings, aka Schatzki rings

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Hiatal hernias

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What is the characteristics of esophageal rings

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Dysphagia is intermittent and not progressive

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What is likely to cause symptoms in esophageal rings

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Large poorly chewed food, usually like beefsteak

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What is the treatment for esophageal rings
Bougie dilators
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As the size of Zenker diverticulum enlarge, what are some characteristic sings that may appear
- Bad breath (halitosis) - spontaneous regurgitation of undirected food - Nocturnal choking
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What are the complications of Zenker diverticulum
Pneumonia Bronchiectsis Lung abcess
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What is the best diagnostic tool for Zenker diverticulum
Video esophageography
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What is the diagnostic finding during upper endoscopy
“Feline esophagus” | -multiple esophageal rings treating a curragated appearance looking like a trachea
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What are the complication associated with eosinophilic esophagitis
Esophageal perforation
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What is the most common cause of GIB due to portal hypertension
Esophageal varices
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What is a crucial initial management of esophageal varices
Fluids, blood products, and taken to the ICU
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What blood products can be given to patients with esophageal varices
FFP or fresh frozen plasma, vitamin K
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Which antibiotics are given to patients with bleeds/ esophageal varices
3 gen cephalosporins, or flouroquinolones
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What is the short term agents given to esophageal varices to reduce rebleeding
Nonselective beta blockers
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What is the long term treatment of esophageal varices to prevent rebleeding
Band ligation
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During active esophageal varices bleeding, what is done for the airway
Endotracheal tube to prevent aspiration
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What is the emergent treatment for esophageal varices bleeding
Banding (the endoscopy of choice)
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What are Minnesota or Sengstaken-blakemore tubes used to treat
Esophageal varices, and is a form of ballon tube, and only in cases where the bleeding can not be controlled (temporary fix)
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What is transvenous intrahepatic portosystemic shunts used to treat
Aka TIPS, and for lowering risk of rebleeding, but does not lower mortality. Reserved for those patients with 2 or more epidsodes of bleeding that have not responded to treatment
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What is the cause of achalasia
Loss of relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter due to loss of NO production as there is the loss of the myenteric plexus
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What is used to confirm the diagnosis of achalasia and what is the finding
Esophageal manometry and will have the complete absence of normal peristalsis and incomplete lower esophageal sphincter relaxation with swallowing
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What is occurring during Boerhhave’s syndrome
Spontaneous transmural rupture at the GE junction due to belching or vomiting
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What is the diagnostic tool used for Boerhaave’s syndrome
CT of chest and detecting air in the mediastinum
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What is the treatment for Boerhaave’s syndrome
NGT suction
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What are the three signs of pneumomediastinum
- SubQ emphysema - Hamman’s sign - Dyspnea
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What is SubQ emphysema and where is it heard in pneumomediastium
Air trapped under the skin, usually heard in the neck or precordial area
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What is Hamman’s sign and what condition is it associated with
-heard during pneumomediastinum Crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat and heard over the precordium during systole and in the decubitus position (on their side)
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How can Mallory Weiss tear be treated locally and quickly
Epinephrine

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