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Duodenum blood supply

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Superior and inferior pancreaticoduodenal arteries
Superior off gastroduodenal
Inferior off SMA

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Maximum site of all absorption

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-Jejunum: most nutrients, and 95% of NaCl, and 90% of H2O

  • Duodenum: iron
  • Ileum: non-conjugated bile acids
  • Terminal ileum: B12, conjugated bile acids, folate?
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Jejunum blood supply

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SMA

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Ileum blood supply

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SMA

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Intestinal brush border enzymes

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Maltase

Sucrase

Limit dextrinase

Lactase

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Normal diameters for small bowel, colon, and cecum

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3 / 6 / 9 cm

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Gut cell types

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Absorptive cells

Goblet cells (mucin secretion)

Paneth cells (secretory granules, enzymes)

Enterochromaffin cells (APUD, 5-hydroxytryptamine release, carcinoid precursor)

Brunner’s glands (alkaline solution)

Peyer’s patches (lymphoid tissue; increased in ileum)

M cells: Antigen presenting cells

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Ab released into gut

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IgA (also in breast milk)

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Heme and iron transport

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small bowel

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Migrating motor complex phases

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Gut motility:

Phase I - rest

Phase II - acceleration and GB contraction

Phase III - peristalsis (motilin)

Phase IV - deceleration

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Most important hormone for migrating motor complex

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motilin

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Bile salt reabsorption

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95% is reabsorbed

50% passive absorption (non-conjugated) in ileum and a little bit colon

50% active resorption (conjugated) in terminal ileum ONLY (Na/K ATPase)

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Why do gallstones form after terminal ileum resection?

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It’s the only place where conjugated bile salts are reabsorbed

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Diarrhea, steatorrhea, weight loss, nutritional deficiency after bowel resection

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Short gut syndrome: generally need at least 75cm to survive off TPN; 50 cm with competent ICV

Dx: -Sudan red stain: fecal fat
-Schilling test: checks for B12 abruption (radiolabeled B12 in urine)

Tx: Restrict fat, PPI to reduce acid, Lomotil (diphenoxylate and atropine)

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Steatorrhea causes

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  • Gastric hypersecretion of acid (decreased intestinal motility in acidic env’t)
  • Interruption of bile salt resorption (TI resection, interferes with micelle formation and fat absorption)

Tx: Lomotil (diphenoxylate and atropine), decrease oral intake especially fats, pancrease, PPI

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Causes of nonhealing fistula

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FRIENDS

  • Foreign body
  • Radiation
  • Infection or IBD
  • Epithelialization
  • Neoplasm
  • Distal obstruction
  • Sepsis/steroids

Other: high output, small bowel less likely to close than colonic

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Patient with nonhealing fistula presents with fever

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Check for abscess: fistulogram, CT, UGI with SBFT

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Fistula treatment

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-NPO, TPN, stoma appliance, octreotide

Most close without surgery

Surgery: resect small bowel segment containing fistula and perform primary anastomosis

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Most common causes of obstruction

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Small bowel: hernia, if prior surgery adhesions

Large bowel: cancer

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Patient with nausea, emesis, crampy abdominal pain, failure to pass gass or stool, AXR shows air-fluid level, distended loops of small bowel, distal decompression

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Bowel obstruction

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SBO tx

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Aggressive fluid resuscitation, bowel rest, NG tube

Cures 80% of partial SBO, 40% of complete SBO

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Surgical indications for SBO

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Progressing pain, peritoneal signs, fever, increasing WBCs (signs of strangulation or perforation), or failure to resolve

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Patient with SBO and air in the biliary tree

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Gallstone ileus, gallstone usually in TI

Caused by fistula between gallbladder and second portion of duodenum

Tx:

  • Remove stone from TI (if any signs of ischemia at cecum then resect)
  • If NOT too sick, also perform cholecystectomy and close duodenum
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1yo child with painless lower GI bleed

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Meckel’s (true) diverticulum, caused by failure of closure of omphalomesenteric duct

Rule of 2’s: 2 ft from ICV, 2% of population, presents with bleeding in first 2 years of life

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Most common tissue found in Meckel's
Pancreas, can cause diverticulitis
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Most likely type of meckel's to be symptomatic
Gastric mucosa (bleeding)
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Meckel's presentation
Either bleeding <2yo, or obstruction in adults
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What do you do if you encounter an incidental Meckel's?
Usually not removed unless gastric mucosa suspected (diverticulum feels thick) or has a very narrow neck
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Meckel's dx and tx
-Meckel's 99Tc scan if trouble localizing (mucosa lights up) - Diverticulectomy for uncomplicated diverticulitis or bleeding - Indications for resection: complicated diverticulitis (perforation), neck > 1/3 diameter of normal bowel lumen, or diverticulitis involves the base
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Small bowel diverticula
Duodenal > jejunal > ileal Need to rule out gallbladder-duodenal fistula Observe unless perforated, bleeding, obstructed, or symptomatic: - Surgery: segmental resection (avoid Whipple!) - Biliary symptoms: juxta-ampullary needs choledochojejunostomy - Pancreatitis: ERCP with stent
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25yo Jew with intermittent abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, fistulas, anal skin tags
Crohn's, anywhere from mouth to anus, though usually spares rectum Most commonly involved segment is TI
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Crohn's extraintestinal manifestations
- Arthritis, arthralgias - Pyoderma gangrenosum - Erythema nodosum - Ocular disease - Growth failure - Megaloblastic anemia from folate and B12 malabsorption
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Crohn's dx
Colonoscopy with biopsies and enteroclysis can help Path: transmural involvement, segmental disease (skin lesions), cobblestoning, narrow deep ulcers, creeping fat, fistulas Crohn's pancolitis: same colon CA risk as UC
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Crohn's tx
- 5-ASA, loperamide - Acute flares: steroids - Steroid-resistance or fistulas: Infliximab (TNF-alpha inhibitor) - TPN may induce remission and fistula closure with small bowel disease NO agents affect natural course of disease 90% eventually need an operation
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Crohn's surgical indications
Just need 3cm away from gross disease, do not need clear path margins. Unlike in UC, surgery NOT curative - Obstruction (if fails nonop mgt) - Abscess (drainage) - Megacolon - Hemorrhage (unusual) - Blind loop obstruction - Fissures (NO lateral internal sphincteroplasty in Crohn's) - EC fistula (usually nonop) - Perineal fistula (unroof to check for abscess, then let heal) - Anorectovaginal fistulas (may need rectal advancement flap or colostomy)
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Crohn's with diffuse colon disease, what is tx
Proctocolectomy and ileostomy (no pouches or ileoanal anastomosis)
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What do you do if you are attempting an appy and find IBD with normal appy?
Appendectomy if cecum not involved (avoids future confounding diagnosis)
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Patient with Crohn's and multiple bowel strictures and past operations
Stricturoplasty: longitudinal incision through stricture, close transversely, consider if has multiple bowel strictures to save small bowel length, not good 1st operation as leaves disease behind 10% leakage/abscess/fistula rate
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Incidence of Crohn's recurrence requiring more surgery after resection?
50%
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Terminal ileum removal, complications?
- Megaloblastic anemia (decreased B12 uptake) - Osmotic diarrhea and steatorrhea (decreased bile salt uptake) - Gallstones from above too - Ca oxalate kidney stones (decreased oxalate binding to calcium d/t increased intraluminal fat) -> oxalate absorption in colon and released in urine -> hyperoxaluria and stones
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Intermittent flushing and diarrhea, asthma symptoms, CT negative but octreotide scan localizes liver mass
Carcinoid syndrome: Kulchitsky cells (enterochromaffin or argentaffin cell) produce SEROTONIN, part of APUD (amine precursor uptake decarboxylase system) -> 5-HIAA is a breakdown product of serotonin measured in urine (also false elevation with eating fruits) -> bulky liver mets -> diarrhea (serotonin) and flushing (kallikrein) Bradykinin also released -> asthma symptoms Right heart valve lesions Tx: liver mets resection, cholecystectomy in case of future embolization
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Most common sites for carcinoid
1. Appendix 2. Ileum 3. Rectum If small bowel: increased risk for multiple primaries and second unrelated malignancy
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Carcinoid tx
- Appendectomy (< 2 cm) - Right hemicolectomy if 2 cm or greater or involving base - Segmental resection with lymphadenectomy if anywhere else in GI tract - Streptozocin and 5FU for unresectable disease - Octreotide for syndrome palliation - Aprotinin for bronchospasm - Alpha-blockers (phenothiazine) for flushing
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Intusussception tx
Adult: presents as obstruction, can be from tumor, often a malignant lead point (small bowel or cecal) Tx: RESECTION
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Small bowel tumors
Adenomas (benign) Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (benign) Adenocarcinoma (malignant) Leiomyosarcoma (malignant) Lymphoma (malignant)
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Small bowel adenomas
Most often in duodenum Present with bleeding or obstruction Need resection (endoscopic) if identified
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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Autosomal dominant Hamartomas throughout GI tract Mucocutaneous melanotic skin pigmentation Patients have increased extraintestinal malignancies (breast cancer most commonly) and small risk of GI malignancies; NO prophylactic colectomy
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Small bowel adenocarcinoma
Rare, though most common malignant SB tumor Most in duodenum Tx: resection and adenectomy; if in 2nd portion of duodenum, Whipple
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Duodenal adenoCa risk factors
- FAP - Gardner's - Polyps - Adenomas - Von Recklinghausen's (neurofibromatosis 1)
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Leiomyosarcoma
Usually in jejunum and ileum, most extraluminal Hard to differentiate from leiomyoma (> 5 mitoses/HPF, atypia, necrosis) Make sure not a GIST: check C-kit Tx: Resection, NO adenectomy required
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Lymphoma
Usually in ileum, and NHL B cell type, 40% 5-year survival Associated with: - Wegener's - SLE - AIDS - Crohn's - Celiac sprue In post-transplant patient: increased risk of bleeding and perforation Dx: CT, node sampling Tx: Wide en bloc resection (include nodes) unless 1st or 2nd portion of the duodenum (chemorad, NO Whipple)
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Parastomal hernias
Highest incidence with colostomies, generally well tolerated and do not need repair unless symptomatic
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Most common stomal infection
Candida
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Diversion colitis (Hartmann's pouch) is due to what
Lack of short-chain fatty acids Tx: short chain fatty acid enemas
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Stomal complications
Parastomal hernias (colostomies) Infection (candida) Diversion colitis (lack of short chain fatty acids) Stenosis (d/t ischemia - dilate) Fistula (Crohn's) Abscess (irrigation device causes it) Gallstones and uric acid kidney stones (ileostomies)
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25yo with anorexia followed by periumbilically abdominal pain, then vomiting, then RLQ pain. Normal WBC.
Appendicitis: luminal obstruction -> appy distension -> venous congestion and thrombosis -> ischemia -> gangrene necrosis -> rupture
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CT findings in appendicitis
- diameter > 7 mm - wall thickness > 2 mm - fat stranding - no contrast in in appendiceal lumen, try to give rectal contrast
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Appendiceal area most likely to perforate
Midpoint of anti-mesenteric border
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MCC of appendicitis in children and adults
Infants: rare Children: hyperplasia, can follow a viral illness Adults: fecalith
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Appy tx
Walled-off perforation (elderly): perc drainage, interval appy when symptoms improving; consider follow-up barium enema or colonoscopy to rule out perforated cecal colon CA
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Difference in presentation between kids, adults, elderly in appy
- Children and eldery higher rupture rate d/t delayed diagnosis - Children higher fever, more vomiting and diarrhea - Elderly signs/symptoms can be minimal, may need R hemicolectomy if cancer suspected
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Most common cause of acute abdominal pain in 1st trimester of pregnancy
- Appendicitis. Make incision where pain is. Displaced superiorly. - Although more likely to occur in 2nd trimester, and more likely to perforate in 3rd trimester (RUQ pain) - 35% fetal mortality with rupture
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Appendix mucocele
- Can be benign or malignant mucous papillary tumor - Needs OPEN resection (don't spill tumor contents), and Right hemicolectomy if malignant - Rupture can cause pseudomyxoma peritonei - MCC death is small bowel obstruction from peritoneal tumor spread
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Regional ileitis
Can mimic appendicitis, and 10% go on to Crohn's
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What do you do if you attempt appendectomy but find ruptured ovarian cyst, thrombosed ovarian vein, or regional enteritis not involving cecum?
Still perform appy (prevents future confounding diagnosis)
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Most common cause of ileus
Surgery Also hypokalemia, peritonitis, ischemia, trauma, drugs
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Ileus versus obstruction
Ileus: dilatation uniform through stomach, small bowel, colon, rectum, NO decompression Obstruction: bowel decompression distal to obstruction
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Child with RLQ pain, diarrhea, fever, headaches, maculopapular rash, leukopenia, rarely bleeding or perforation
Typhioid enteritis: caused by salmonella Tx: Bactrim

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