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Gastro-oesophageal Inflammation and Peptic Ulceration Flashcards

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What can acute cause oesophagitis?

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  • Immunocompromised
  • Herpes simplex viruses
  • Candida
  • Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
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What can cause chronic oesophagitis?

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  • Tuberculosis
  • Bullous pemphigoid and epidermolysis bullosa
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Reflux oesophagitis (non-specific)
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What can cause an ‘incompetent’ GO junction and therefore GORD?

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  • alcohol and tobacco
  • Obesity
  • Drugs e.g caffeine
  • Hiatus hernia
  • Motility disorders
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What happens to the epithelium in GORD?

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  • Squamus epithelium damaged
  • Eosinophils epithelial infiltration
  • Basal cell hyperplasia
  • Chronic inflammation
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What can severe reflux lead to?

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  • Ulceration
  • May lead to healing by fibrosis:
    Stricture
    Obstruction
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Who is usually affected by Barrett’s Oesophagus?

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  • Men aged 40-60
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How much more likely is adenocarcinoma of distal oesophagus with Barrett’s Oesophagus?

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100x

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What is the main feature of Barrett’s Oesophagus?

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Intestinal METAPLASIA

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What is acute gastritis?

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  • Usually due to chemical injury (drugs/NSAIDs, alcohol)
  • H pylori-associated
    Usually transient phase
    Often becomes chronic
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What is chronic gastritis?

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  • Active chronic (H pylori-associated)
  • Autoimmune
  • Chemical (reflux)
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What is the appearence of H pylori?

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  • Gram negative

- Spiral shaped or curved bacilli

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How is H pylori spread?

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  • Oral-oral
  • Faecal-oral
  • Enviromental spread
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What space does H pylori occupy?

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  • Protected niche beneath mucus where pH approx. neutral

- Does not colonise intestinal type epithelium

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What percentage of active chronic gastritis is caused by H pylori?

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90%

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What does helicobacter pylori cause?

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  • Gastric and duodenal ulcers
  • Risk factor for gastric cancer
  • Strong link with MALT (Mucosa Associated lymphoid Tissue) Lymphoma
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What is an ulcer?

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The breaking of epithelium

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Describe the pathology of Helicobacter Pylori

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  • Swims through gastric fluid and into mucus layer
  • Once in mucosal layer they produce urease which neutralises acid
  • The H pylori divide and produce more urease, this triggers the stomach to produce more HCl
  • Huge amounts of acid build up damaging the protected mucu layer and then destroy surface epithelium of stomach leading to the creating of an ulcer
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What are the symptoms of a H pylori infection?

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Acute infection with symptoms of:
- Nausea 
- Dyspepsia 
- Malaise 
- Halitosis 
Usually lasts about 2 wks
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What are the signs in the gastric mucosa of an H pylori infection?

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Mucosa is inflamed with neutrophils and inflammatory cells with marked persistent lymphocyte penetration

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What does a urease test include?

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  • TEsting the breath for urease

- Patient blows into special tube if urease is significant -> H pylori infection

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What does the outcome of a chronic H pylori infection depend on?

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  • Pattern of inflammation
  • Host response
  • Bacterial virulence
  • Enviromental factors
  • Patient age
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HISTOLOGY

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What are the 2 distribution patterns of H pylori-associated gastritis?

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  • Diffuse involvement of antrum and body
    Atrophy, fibrosis, intestinal metaplasia
    Associated with gastric ulcer and gastric cancer
  • Antral but not body involvement
    Gastric acid secretion increased
    Associated with duodenal cancer
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What is chemical (reflux) gastritis caused by?

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  • Regurgitation of bile and alkaline duodenal secretion

- Loss of epithelial cells with compensatory hyperplasia of gastric foveolae

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What is chemical (reflux) gastritis associated with?
- Defective pylorus | - Motility disorders
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Desribe autoimmune chronic gastritis?
- Autoimmune reaction to gastric parietal cells - Loss of acid secretion (hypochlorhydria / achlorhydria) - Loss of intrinsic factor Vitamin B12 deficiency Macrocytic anaemia (pernicious anaemia) - Associated with marked gastric atrophy and intestinal metaplasia - Serum antibodies to gastric parietal cells and intrinsic factor
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What disease is autoimmune chronic gastritis at an increased risk of causing?
Gastric cancer
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How can autoimmune chronic gastritis be diagnosed?
- Serum antibodies | - FBC
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What is the definition of peptic ulceration?
Breach in mucosal lining of alimentary tract as a result of acid and pepsin attack
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Wht are the major sites of peptic ulceration?
- 1st part of duodenum - Junction of antral and body mucosa in stomach - Distal oesophagus - Gastro-enterostomy stoma
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What are the aetiological factors of peptic ulceration?
- Hyperacidity - H pylori gastritis - Duodenal reflux - NSAIDs - Smoking - Genetic factors - Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
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What are the complications of peptic ulceration?
- Haemorrghage - Penetration of adjavent organs e.g. pancreas - Perforation - Anaemia - Obstruction - Malignancy
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How much more common is a duodenal ulcer in comparison to a gastric ulcer?
3 times
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What blood groups are gastric and duodenal ulcers meant to affect?
- Gastric A - Duodenal O
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What are the acid levels usually like in a gastric ulcer?
Normal or low
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What are the acid levels usually like in a duodenal ulcer?
High or normal
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What percentage of gastric ulcers are caused by H pylori?
About 70%
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What percentage of duodenal ulcers are caused by H pylori?
95 - 100%
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What is the difference in age groups affected by gastric and duodenal ulcers?
- Gastric Increases with age - Duodenal Increases up to 35 years
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Which type of ulcer is most likely to occur in people in the lowest socioeconomic status?
GAstric ulcers
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What are acute peptic ulcers related to?
- Acute gastritis Full thickness loss of epithelium, rather than just erosion - Related to a stress response e.g Curling's ulcer following severe burns - A result of extreme hyperacidity e.g Gastrin-secreting tumours
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where do chronic peptic ulcers tend to occur?
Mucosal junctions
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What are the 2 factors that generally lead to chronic peptic ulceration?
- Hyperacidity - not whole story - Mucosal defence defects (mucus-bicrbonate barrier can be dissolved by biliary reflux)
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What are chronic duodenal ulcers caused by?
``` - Increased acid production More important than for gastric ulcer Can be induced by H pylori - Reduced mucosal resistnace Gastric metaplasia occurs in response to hyperacidity Then colonised by H pylori ```
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Desribe the structure of peptic ulcers?
- usually small (>20 mm) - Sharply 'punched out' with defined edges - Defined structure Granulation tissue at base Underlying inflammation and fibrosis Loss of musscularis mucosa Complications: bleed, burst or block, penetration of adjacent organs e.g pancreas, malignant change: rare in gastric ulcer and 'neber' in duodenal ulcer

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