Gastroenterology Flashcards
+ reducing substances in urine, fulmninant neonatal hepatic failure
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
Adolescent females
- Elevated total protein with normal/low albumin
Autoimmune hepatitis
Rx: immunosuppression, steroids for induction, mercaptopurine or azothioprine for maintenance