Gastroenterology Flashcards
+ reducing substances in urine, fulmninant neonatal hepatic failure
Galactosemia
Neonatal metabolic diseases that may present as fulminant liver failure
Tyrosinemia, Fructosemia, Galactosemia
Liver failure after introduction of fruit juices
Fructosemia
Fulminant neonatal hepatic failure + succinylacetone in urine
Tyrosinemia
Test for diagnosing hepatitis A
Hepatitis A IgM
Percentage of children infected with Hepatitis A that go on to fulminant liver failure
<1%
Extrahepatic manifestations like rash and arthralgias
Think Hepatitis B
Percentage of neonates that will not clear the hepatitis B antigen
90% versus <10 adults
This chronic hepatitis carrier state has a high association with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatitis B
Positive HepBsAg
Acute infection
HBeAg
All about level of viral replication
HepBsAb
Only Ab that gives protection from the Hepatitis B virus
HepBcAb
Rises early in course of Hepatitis B, before HepBsAb
Hepatitis A and B treatment
Symptomatic management
Hepatitis B prevention in children born to mothers with Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B vaccine + HBIg shortly after birth
Which of the Hepatitis Viruses is a DNA virus?
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis A + C are RNA viruses
Percentage of children exposed to Hepatitis C that develop chronic disease
75%
These two hepatitides have a high rate of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatitis B + C
Gold standard for Hepatitis C diagnosis
Hepatitis C DNA PCR
Hepatitis C Ab has a high rate of false positive an negative results
Treatment for chronic Hepatitis C
Ribavirin and Interferon
Hepatitis D
- Occurs in coinfection with Hepatitis B –> worse course
- Eastern Europe and Mediterranean
- Diagnosis = IgM to Hepatitis D
Hepatitis E
- Very similar to Hepatitis A
- Short incubation period
- Epidemics/endemics with contaminated water
- Developing countries
- No chronic disease
- Hepatitis E Ab test through CDC
Other viruses that cause hepatitis in childhood…
- EBV –> transaminitis, +/- jaundice, adenopathy + hepatoSPLENOmegaly
- CMV, HSV, Varicella in immunocompromised pts
Drugs associated with hepatotoxicity
- Acetaminophen
- Isoniazid
- Anticonvulsants - Valproic Acid
- Anesthetics - Halothane
- Onc - MTX, mercaptopurine, 6MP
This mushroom, when ingested, leads to hepatitis
Amanita phalloides
- Viral illness
- Aspirin use
- Acute liver failure
- Cerebral edema
Reye’s Syndrome
Cutoff for chronic hepatitis
6 months
Management of chronic liver failure
- Symptomatic
- Ascites –> fluid + sodium restriction
- Encephalopathy –> limit protein to 1-1.5g/kg/day, lactulose, rifaximime
- Liver transplantation ultimately
Chronic hepatitis B treatment
- Interferon alone
- +/- Lamiduvine - develop resistance
Chronic hepatitis C treatment
Ribavirin and Interferon - combination therapy better
Liver disease in childhood, lung disease in adulthood
Alpha 1 antitrypsin
- ZZ phenotype
Findings in Wilson’s disease
- Deposition of copper in CNS, liver, kidney
- Increased: 24 urine Cu exretion, copper content in liver on biopsy
- Decreased: serum Cu, serum ceruloplasm
Teenager with acute liver failure and hemolytic anemia
or…chronic hepatitis leading to cirrhosis
Can also present with neurological symptoms - personality changes
Wilson’s disease
Kayser Fleisher rings - (liver dz with eye image – think Wilson’s or Alagille’s Syndrome [posterior endotoxin])
Treatment for Wilson’s
Penicillamine or Trientene
Tyrosinemia
- AR
- can present as acute liver failure in an infant
- untreated, by age 3, high percentage will develop hepatocellular carcinoma
- May have neurologic symptoms and renal impairment (lose phosphorus in urine)
- Rx: limit tyrosine in diet, NTBC stops degradation of tyrosine into toxic metabolites
- Children with cirrhosis, transplant?
Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis
Defects of bile acid metabolism or secretion
- mimic chronic hepatitis
- PRURITUS significant (also in Alagille’s)
- Rx: symptom management, liver transplantation