Gastric outlet obstruction and Gastric CA Flashcards
Causes of gastric outlet obstruction
- Late complication of peptic ulcer disease due to fibrotic stricturing
- Gastric Ca
Presentation of gastric outlet obstruction
- Bloating
- early satiety
- nausea
• Outlet obstruction - Copious projectile, non-bilious vomiting a few hrs after meals. - Contains stale food. - Epigastric distension
Investigation of gastric outlet obstruction
• ABG: Hypochloraemic hypokalaemic met alkalosis • AXR - Dilated gastric air bubble - Collapsed distal bowel • OGD • Contrast meal
Tx of gastric outlet obstruction
- Correct metabolic abnormality: 0.9% NS + KCl
- Benign
- Endoscopic balloon dilatation
- Pyloroplasty or gastroenterostomy
• Malignant
- Stenting
- Resection
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis epidemiology
- Sex: M>F=4:1
* Race: ↑ in Caucasians
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis presentation
- 6-8wks
• Projectile vomiting minutes after feeding
• RUQ mass: olive shaped
• Visible peristalsis
Investigations for Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Test feed: palpate mass + see peristalsis
- ABG - Hypochloraemic hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis
- US
Management for Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Resuscitate and correct metabolic abnormality
- NGT
- Ramsted pyloromyotomy: divide muscularis propria
Gastric cancer RF
• Atrophic gastritis (→ intestinal metaplasia)
- Pernicious anaemia / AI gastritis
- H. pylori
• Diet: ↑ nitrates – smoked, pickled, salted (↑ Japan)
- Nitrates → carcinogenic nitrosamines in GIT
- Smoking and alcohol
- Familial: E. cadherin abnormality
- Partial gastrectomy
Pathology of gastric CA
- Mainly adenocarcinomas
- Usually located on gastric antrum
- H. pylori may cause MALToma
Presentation of gastric CA
Usually present late: • Wt. loss + anorexia • Dyspepsia: epigastric or retrosternal pain/discomfort • Dysphagia • N+V
Signs: • Anaemia • Epigastric mass • Jaundice • Ascites • Hepatomegaly • Virchow’s node = Troisier's sign • Acanthosis nigricans
Complications
- Perforation - peritonitis
- Upper GI bleed: haematemesis, melaena
- Gastric outlet obstruction → succussion splash
Krukenberg tumour
Transcoelomic spread of gastric CA to ovaries
Investigations for gastric CA
• Bloods - FBC: anaemia - LFTs and clotting - liver mets • Imaging - CXR: mets - USS: liver mets - Gastroscopy + biopsy (gold standard) - Ba meal
• Staging
- Endoluminal USS
- CT- CAP
- Diagnostic laparoscopy
Management of gastric CA
Curative Surgery:
• early - resected endoscopically
- Proximal - total gastrectomy with lymph node dissection and Roux en Y reconstruction
- Distal - subtotal gastrectomy with roux-en-Y to prevent bile reflux.
- Spleen and part of pancreas may be removed