Gastroenterology Flashcards
Colonoscopy screening for ulcerative colitis
Every one to two years beginning 10 years after diagnosis for patients with disease extending beyond rectum
Irritable bowel syndrome workup with history of autoimmune disease
Check TTG rule out celiac disease - especially with type one diabetes and autoimmune thyroid disease
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
Liver failure and coagulopathy
HELLP HEMOLYSIS, elevated liver enzymes, low plateletS
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia
Resolved acute diverticulitis next step
After appropriate antibiotic therapy will require full colonoscopy to rule out other causes mimicking diverticulitis
Chest pain intermittent unrelated to exertion no reflux symptoms retrosternal pain seconds to minutes corkscrew on x-ray dysphasia to both liquids and solids
Diffuse esophageal spasm treat with calcium channel blockers/ppi - multiple simultaneous contractions on manometry
Many month history of dyspepsia looking like Gerd no alarm symptoms no physical exam abnormality what is treatment
Proton pump inhibitor
Hematochezia hypotension syncopal symptoms use of NSAIDs anemia what is next test to perform
Suspect upper G.I. source of bleeding needs upper endoscopy first - absence of blood or coffee ground material in NG tube does not rule out upper G.I. bleed - if negative then do colonoscopy
Treatment of new onset severely active Crohn’s disease
Antitumor necrosis factor therapy like infliximab is best and better than immunomodulators such as mesalamine because Crohn’s disease is transmural
Treatment of severe alcoholic hepatitis
Mandry discriminant function score of greater than 32 benefit from pentoxifylline if corticosteroids are contraindicated - like with kidney failure G.I. bleed active infections
How long to keep patient in hospital after high-risk peptic ulcer and a scopic treatment
72 hours - takes this long for high-risk peptic ulcer to become peptic ulcer
Patient with G.I. bleed due to angioectasias and aortic stenosis
replace aortic valve - heyde syndrome e - mechanical destruction of von Willebrand multimers during non-laminar flow through narrow aortic valve
Young patient history of several food impaction’s history of allergies and asthma egd with concentric rings
Eosinophilic esophagitis treat with PPI or budesonide
Food regurgitation barium swallow dilated esophagus tapering gastroesophageal junction manometry decreased peristalsis increased lower esophageal pressure
Achalasia then do a EGD to rule out lymphoma cancer then a surgical myotomy
Regurgitating food eaten several days ago with halitosis
Zenkers diverticulum pouch in hypopharynx
odynophasia for more than 10 days
Egd to rule out esophagitis consider pill induced, radiation, infections like Candida CMV herpes
HIV patient with oral thrush complaining of odynophasia
No need for EGD right away treat empirically then if no improvement EGD to rule out CMV and herpes
Progressive dysphasia two solids heartburn several years
Peptic stricture
Patient with CVA hemiparesis with coughing and choking sensation was regurgitation of fluids to knows best diagnostic test
Video fluoroscopic swallowing study or modified barium swallow
Heartburn not remove by antacid initial diagnostic step is
Ppi challenge - step down to H2 if better in 3 months
If patient doesn’t get better with PPI
EGD - if no esophagitis then ambulatory pH monitoring if little reflux than likely psychiatric give citalopram
Heartburn not respond – since with weight loss
Directly to EGD
Treatment of GERD with PPI’s or fundoplication surgery effect on existing Barrett’s
No effect
Barrett’s esophagus EGD guidelines
After diagnosis the EGD one year later
NO Dysplasia ON REPEAT EGD NEXT ONE THREE-YEARs
Low-grade dysplasia repeat Egdsix months if still low-grade repeat yearly
If changes back to metaplasia continually EGD every three years
HIGH-GRADE DYSPLASIA ENDOSCOPIC HIGH FREQUENCY ABLATION