Final Flashcards
Jaundice with what kind of bilirubin is concerning in neonates?
Conjugated
Gilbert syndrome
Benign, asymptomatic jaundice, autosomal dominant
Indirect bili increased, usually too low to show jaundice
Intermittent and generally asymptomatic
Crigler najar syndrome type 1
Unconjugated increased, persistent, fatal kernicterus
Cigler najjar type 2
Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Later onset, mild elevation
Reye’s syndrome
Encephalopathy, fatty liver, transaminitis
Avoid ASA!
Hemochromatosis
Autosomal recessive
Heme uptake increased in liver, pancreas, heart
Hyperpigmentation, fatigue, impotence, DM
Phlebotomy to treat
Wilson disease
Autosomal recessive
Disrupted copper transport, deposits in liver and brain, can look like Parkinson’s in a young patient
Kayser fleischer pathognomonic, elevated copper in urine
AAT deficiency
AAT made in hepatocytes, can lead to cholestasis. Antiprotesase that acts in the lungs
Can lead to early onset emphysema
Stop smoking!
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Chronic autoimmune destruction of bile ducts, usually women 40-60
Way increased alk phos, xanthomas, jaundice, portal HTN
AMA positive!
Liver abscess
Fever, chills, pain, cough
Cavernous hemangioma
Vascular lesion in liver, no risk of bleed
Focal nodular hyperplasia
Hypervascular mass with stellate appernce
Hepatocelluar adenoma
20-40 women on OCP
Small risk of malignant transformation
HHC is 80% in cases of…
Cirrhotic liver
HCC
Cachexia, weakness, weight loss, sudden increase in alk phos
Triple phase CT shows rapid contrast filling with washout !
Fulminant
Within 8 weeks of onset of acute liver dz
Subfulminant
8 weeks to 6 months from onset of acute liver disease
Acute liver failure manifestations
Hepatic encephalopathy
Impaired synthetic function
Acute liver failure caused by…
APAP in a lot of cases, like half
Also viral hepatitis
Hepatic encephalopathy
Ammonia commonly elevated, but not the only factor
Asterixis
Most specific exam finding for hepatic encephalopathy
Fetor hepaticus
Sweet, fecal odor of breath, ammonia and ketones
Depuytren’s contracture and gynecomastia found in…
Liver disease
Child Pugh score
ABC stages
Encephalopathy, ascites, bilirubin, albumin, PTT
TIPS
Shunt placed between portal and hepatic veins to bypass the liver in portal HTN
Another scotch and tonic
AST at least 2x ALT in alcoholic liver disease
Alcoholic liver disease prognosis
Reverses with abstinence, this is the cornerstone of treatment
Non alcoholic fatty liver disease
Effects a lot of the population
Metabolic syndrome increases the risk, correct the modifiable risk factors
Cholelithiasis presentation
Biliary colic
Nausea belching, bloating
Pain after eating, may radiate to the back
Acute cholecystitis presentation
Vomiting, peritoneal signs, jaundice
Ascending cholangitis
ERCP emergently!!!
Can cause charcot’s triad- RUQ pain, fever, jaundice
then reynold’s Pentad!- charcot’s plus AMS, hypotension
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Men 20-50, patients have IBD, fibrosis of biliary tract
Hep B labs
HBsAg- active infection
HBsAb- immunity, vaccine or from infection
HBcAb- following an active infection
HBeAg- actively infectious
HBeAb- infectivity reduced, acute phase over
Hep C
Illness often mild and asymptomatic, high rate of chronic hepatitis
Associated with a lot of other systemic symptoms!
Autoimmune hepatitis
All ages, often younger females
ANA or ASMA, other autoimmune diseases
White blood cells attacking the liver
Budd chiari syndrome
Occlusion of hepatic vein, usually thrombotic, polycythemia vera in half of cases
Causes pain, ascites and HM
**doppler
Which pancreatic enzyme is more sensitive?
Lipase
Sentinel lop
Paralysis and accumulation of gas, acute pancreatitis
Colon cutoff sign
Gas filled section of colon abruptly ending at pancreas
Pancreatic cancer pearls
St mary Joseph’s nodule- periumbilical nodule, mets
Painless jaundice
Courvoisier’s sign- palpable gallbladder = neoplastic obstruction
Hemobilia
Blood in biliary fluid, sign of biliary cancer until proven otherwise
Boerhaave syndrome
Rupture of esophagus due to vomiting
Singultus
Hiccups
Intractable hiccups
Chronic renal failure
Organic cause of hiccups
Doesn’t go away when you sleep, psychogenic cause does go away when you sleep
Normal transit time
35 hours, up to 72 hours
Normal transit constipation
Incomplete evacuation, psychosocial stress
Slow transit constipation
Infrequent stools, lack of urge, poor response to fiber and laxatives
Non inflammatory diarrhea
Water, non bloody
Periumbilical cramping, bloating
Maybe vomiting if food poisoning
Inflammatory diarrhea
Blood, pus, fever
Urgency, tenesmus
Must be distinguished from ulcerative colitis
Tissue damage from invasive organism or toxin
Chronic diarrhea is …
Greater than 4 weeks
Secretory diarrhea
Excessive stool water from extra electrolytes
Decreased electrolyte absorption or simulated electrolyte secretion in the intestines
Osmotic diarrhea
Ingestion of poorly absorbed cations (mg) and anions (sulfate) or carb malabsorption
Increased stool osmotic gap
Weight loss, steatorrhea, fecal fat >10
Shigella
Very high attack rate
Hemorrhage, bloody mucoid stools in small volume
Can cause reiter’s syndrome (uveitis, arthritis, urethritis) and HUS
Campylobacter can cause…
Guillan barre
Shigatoxin diarrhea
Can cause HUS, very deadly
Taenia solium
Can migrate to eyes and brain, cause neurocystercercosis
Punched out lesions in the brain
Ascaris lumbricodes
Free swimming, liver heart and lungs
Eosinophilia, urticaria, cough
Can be vomited out
Candida esophagitis looks…
Shaggy
Herpetic esophagitis
Volcano like appearance, multinucleated giant cells
Which is worse, alkaline or acid?
Alkaline
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Could be inflammatory response to allergies
Genetic
Need endoscopy with bx to confirm
Peripheral eosinophilia
Achalasia
Slowly progressive dysphagia
Loss of peristalsis in deep esophagus and failure of LES to relax
BIRD BEAK APPEARANCE on barium swallow
What is required for achalasia diagnosis?
Manometry
DES barium findings
Rosary need or corkscrew esophagus
Zenker’s goes through what?
Killian’s triangle
Schatzki ring
Circumferential mucosal structure at lower esophageal ring
Plummer Vinson syndrome
Triad of:
Irone deficiency
Dysphagia
Cervical esophageal web
Etiology of esophageal cancer
Squamous cell most common worldwide
Adenocarincoma most common in the US (distal 1/3)
Coffee ground emesis
Gastritis
H pylori
Spiral gram negative rod
Inflammation and injury in intestine, fecal Ag immunoassay or urea breath test!
Pernicious anemia gastritis
Autoimmune destruction
Decreased intrinsic factor secretion and B12 malabsorption, elevated gastrin production
Most common site of ulcer
Antrum
Then lesser curvature
Ulcers feel better with…
Food and antacids, especially duodenal ulcers
Zollinger ellison syndrome
Gastrinoma
Gastrin secreting neuroendorcine tumor, often in the gastrinoma triangle or the duodenum
2/3 are malignant
Zollinger ellison syndrome diagnosis
Secretin stimulation test- give secretin and it increases gastrin secretino in a gastrinoma
What is the dividing line of upper and lower GI?
Ligament of treitz, suspensions ligament of duodenum
Dieulafy’s legion
Abnormally dilated submucosal artery that erodes overlying mucosa and bleeds
Angiodysplasia
Melena
Blood in stool, dark and tarry from UGIB
Hematochezia
Usually lower GI bleed, more frank blood, but still can be from an UGIB
Norm for lower GI bleeds
Hematochezia
Brown stools with blood mixed or streaked, bright red from colon, maroon from small bowel
Painless large volume bleed =
Diverticular dz
Gastroparesis diagnostics
Gastric scintigraphy, measures gastric retention after a meal
KUB/CT may show dilation
Ogilvie syndrome
Massive cecal/ascending colon dilation, high risk of perforation
Critically ill inpatients
Similar to ileus but more sever
Intestinal atresia
Hx of polyhydramnios
Bilious vomiting
Double bubble sign, gas in stomach and proximal duodenum
Celiac
Diffuse damage to proximal small intestine from immunologic response to gluten
Dermatitis herpetiformis (itchy papulovesicles)
Whipple disease
Fatal if untreated
Hyperpigmentation, LAD, diarrhea, arthralgias, weight loss, fever
Diagnostic for lactase deficiency
Hydrogen breath test or 2 week lactose free diet
Coiled spring sign
Small bowel obstruction
X-ray distinguishing SBO from LBO
LBO, haustral markings don’t cross the entire lumen
String of pearls
Bowel obstructions
Wandering spleen
Risk of torsion with movement
Most common surgical problem in pregnancy?
Appendicitis
Peritonitis/abscess
Peritonitis more free with aerobes
Abscess more often with anaerobes
Incarceration vs strangulation
Incarceration means it cannot be manually reduced
Strangulation means that there is ischemia and necrosis
Diastasis recti
Separation of rectus abdominis muscles with intact facia
Bulges like a hernia, but there is no defect
Seen in obesity and post pregnancy
Indirect hernia
Though inguinal ring
Can feel it on the tip of finger
Direct hernia
Hesselbachs triangle, feel it on the side of your finger
Femoral hernia
More commonly female
Often incarcerated/strangulated
Mesh too tight on hernia repair, risk damaging…
Ilioinguinal nerve
C diff microbiology
Gram positive anaerobe
Spore forming
Toxin producing
Need to wash hands, not use alcohol
Diagnosis of c diff
EIA for toxin- need a high toxin burden
PCR- very expensive
Culture- takes time
Flex sig/colonoscopy- pseudomembranous colitis
How long should symptoms be present before diagnosis of IBD?
3 months
Diagnostic criteria of IBS
Rome III
CD or UC has more family hx risk?
Crohn’s
Aphthous ulcers more common in…
Crohn’s disease
Most common skin disorder with IBD
Erythema nodosum - red subQ pretibial nodules
Which has transmural inflammation?
Crohn’s dz
Which has more perianal dz?
Crohn’s
Cobblestoning seen in…
Crohn’s
Advanced adenoma
Take 5 years to develop
Greater liklihood of malignant transformation, 10 years to develop malignancy
Polyps in the ….. colon associated with more advanced neoplasia
Proximal
If >10 polyps, consider…
Familial polyposis syndrome
3-10 adenomas, >1 cm with high grade dysplasia, rescope in …
3 yeras
Lynch syndrome
Hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer
Autosomal dominant, can lead to endometrial CA, ovarian CA, and others
Fewer polyps, but progress to cancer in 1-2 years!
Bethesda criteria
Should be considered for genetic testing for lynch syndrome
Colorectal cancer findings
Apple core lesion
CEA (>5 is bad)
Screening for colorectal cancer
Start at age 50, 45 in black patients
Colonoscopy every 10 years, all other every 5 yeras
Hemorrhoids are…
Normal anatomic structures!
Become symptomatic when venous pressure rises and they become engorged
Thrombosed external hemorrhoids
Young healthy adults
Coughing, heavy lifting or straining
Painful, tense, bluish perianal nodule