CP Theme 4

Question 1

Primary risk factor for oesophageal adenocarcinoma?

Answer 1

Barrets Oesophagus

Question 2

Heart response to shock in the initial phase?

Answer 2

Tachucardia

Question 3

Strategy of giving ‘best guess’ antibiotics prior to culture results?

Answer 3

Empirical

Question 4

Transmural colitis associated with granulomas?

Answer 4

Crohn’s Disease

Question 5

Effect of digestive enzyme deficiencies in cystic fibrosis?

Answer 5

Malnutrition

Question 6

Commonest site of distant colorectal caner metastasis?

Answer 6

Liver

Question 7

Potentially severe large intestinal complication following antibiotic therapy?

Answer 7

Pseudomembranous colitis

Question 8

Parasitic waterborne infection leading to watery diarrhoea?

Answer 8

Cryptosporidiosis

Question 9

Subtype of gastric cancer often associated with signet ring cells?

Answer 9

Diffuse

Question 10

The commonest cause of oesophagitis in the UK?

Answer 10

Reflux oesophagus

Question 11

Commonest site of colonic diverticular disease?

Answer 11

Sigmoid Colon

Question 12

Acute bacterial infection of ascites fluid?

Answer 12

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Question 13

Facultative gram negative bacillus associated with potentially fatal outbreaks of diarrhoea?

Answer 13

Escherichia Coli

Question 14

Possible cause of death following major trauma peaking around 10 days after the insult?

Answer 14

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Question 15

Common colorectal polyps with no malignant potential?

Answer 15

Hyperplastic

Question 16

Disease caused by a sensitivity to gliadin?

Answer 16

Coeliac Disease

Question 17

Inflammation of the gall bladder

Answer 17

Cholecystitis

Question 18

Common cause of viral gastroenteritis

Answer 18

Norovirus

Question 19

The process of glucose production from skeletal muscle

Answer 19

Gluconeogenesis

Question 20

Method of translocation of micro-organisms across a visceral wall?

Answer 20

Perforation