Gastrointestinal Flashcards
What is gastro-oesophageal reflux disease?
Reflux of stomach contents (acid and bile) causes troublesome symptoms such as heartburn
What can prolonged GORD cause? (3)
1) Oesophagitis
2) Benign oesophageal strictures
3) Barrett’s oesophagus
Give 4 causes of GORD
- ) Lower oesophageal sphincter hypotension
- ) Hiatus hernia
- ) Oesophageal dysmotility
- ) Obesity
- ) Gastric acid hypersecretion
- ) Delayed gastric emptying
- ) Smoking
- ) Alcohol
- ) Pregnancy
- ) Drugs (nitrates)
Give 3 oesophageal symptoms of GORD
- ) Heartburn
- ) Belching
- ) Acid brash (acid/bile regurgitation)
- ) Waterbrash (increased salivation)
- ) Odynophagic (painful swallowing)
Give 3 extra-oesophageal symptoms of GORD
- ) Nocturnal asthma
- ) Chronic cough
- ) Laryngitis
- ) Sinusitis
What can GORD lead to that could lead to cancer?
Barrett’s oesophagus
What is the histological change in Barrett’s oesophagus?
Distal oesophageal epithelium undergoes metaplasia from squamous to columnar
What tests can we do for GORD? (3)
1) Endoscopy
2) Barium swallow
3) 24 hours of oesophageal monitoring and manometry
When do we do an endoscopy in GORD? (2)
1) Symptoms >4 weeks
2) >55 with alarm symptoms
What is the treatment for GORD? (4)
- ) Lifestyle changes
- ) Drugs (antacids alginates, PPI)
- ) Avoid nitrates, antcholinergics, calcium channel blockers, NSAIDs, bisphosphonates
- ) Surgery to increase sphincter pressure
Give an example of a PPI
Lanzoprazole
Give the lifestyle changes for GORD
- ) Weight loss
- ) Smoking cessation
- ) Small regular meals
- ) Reduce hot drinks
- ) Alcohol
- ) Citrus fruits, tomatoes, onions
- ) Fizzy drinks
- ) Spicy foods
- ) Caffeine, chocolate
- ) Avoid eating <3hr before bed
- ) Raised bed head
Give 3 symptoms of peptic ulcer disease
- ) Epigastric pain often related to hunger, specific foods, time of day
- ) Bloating
- ) Fullness after meals
- ) Heartburn
- ) Tender epigastrium
- ) ALARM symptoms
What are the ALARMS symptoms?
Anaemia Loss of weight Anorexia Recent onset Melena (or haematemesis) Swallowing problems
What do we test for if the patient is <55 with peptic ulcer disease?
H. pylori
How do we treat a H. pylori infection?
PAC
PPI
Amoxicillin
Clarithromycin
What should we do if a patient is >55 and has new dyspepsia or ALARM symptoms?
Urgent endoscopy
What drugs can cause peptic ulcer disease?
NSAIDs
How can a duodenal ulcer cause pancreatitis?
It erodes through to the pancreas
Where do ulcers erode into to cause haemorrhaging?
Arteries
Where do ulcers erode into to cause peritonitis
Layers of stomach/duodenal wall
Is H. pylori gram negative or positive?
Negative
Are duodenal or gastric ulcers more common?
Duodenal
Give 2 minor risk factors for duodenal ulcers
- ) Increased gastric secretion
- ) Increased gastric emptying (decreased duodenal pH)
- ) Smoking
What test do we do in peptic ulcer disease to diagnose?
Upper GI endoscopy
On which curve of the stomach do gastric ulcers usually occur?
Lesser curve
Give 3 risk factors for gastric ulcers
- ) H. pylori
- ) Smoking
- ) NSAIDs
- ) Reflux
- ) Delayed emptying
- ) Stress
What are the 4 parts of peptic ulcer disease treatment?
1) Lifestyle (decrease alcohol and tobacco)
2) H. pylori eradication
3) Drugs to reduce acid
4) Drug induced ulcers (stop drug if possible)
What drugs can we give to reduce acid in peptic ulcer disease? (2)
1) PPIs - lansoprazole
2) H2 blockers - ranitidine
What is gastritis?
Inflammation of the lining of the stomach
What are the 3 pathophysiological causes of gastritis?
1) Mucosal ischaemia (less mucin made)
2) Increased acid
3) Helicobacter infection (live in mucus layer)
Give 4 causes of gastritis
- ) Alcohol
- ) NSAIDs
- ) H. pylori
- ) Reflux/hiatus hernia
- ) Atrophic gastritis
- ) Granulomas
- ) CMV (cytomegalovirus)
What are the symptoms of gastritis? (2)
Epigastric pain
Vomiting
How do we diagnose gastritis?
Upper GI endoscopy
How do we prevent gastritis when taking NSAIDs?
PPI
What is malabsorption?
Where we do not absorb enough food/nutrients from our diet
What are the 3 most common causes of gastrointestinal malabsorption in the UK?
1) Coeliac disease
2) Chronic pancreatitis
3) Crohn’s disease
Give 4 more rare causes of malabsorption
- ) Decreased bile
- ) Pancreatic insufficiency
- ) Small bowel mucosa
- ) Bacterial overgrowth
- ) Infection
- ) Intestinal hurry
What 2 drugs can cause malabsorption?
Alcohol, metformin
Give 5 symptoms of malabsorption
- ) Diarrhoea
- ) Weight loss
- ) Lethargy
- ) Steatorrhoea
- ) Bloating
Give 4 signs of malabsorption
- ) Anaemia
- ) Bleeding disorders
- ) Oedema
- ) Metabolic bone disease
- ) Neurological features
What decreases in anaemia in malabsorption? (3)
Fe, B12, folate
What decreases in bleeding disorders in malabsorption?
Vitamin K
What decreases in oedema in malabsorption?
Protein
What decreases in metabolic bone disease in malabsorption?
Vitamin D
What are we looking for in a blood test for malabsorption? (8)
- ) FBC (micro/macrocytic anaemia)
- ) Low Ca2+
- ) Low Fe
- ) Low B12
- ) Low folate
- ) Lipid profile
- ) High INR
- ) Coeliac tests
What are we looking for in a stool test for malabsorption?
Fat globules, microscopy, elastase
What do we do for bacterial overgrowth testing in malabsorption?
Breath hydrogen analysis
What are the results of breath hydrogen analysis if there is bacterial overgrowth?
Increased exhaled hydrogen after giving glucose
Give an organism that can cause infectious malabsorption
Giardia lamblia
What physical test can we do for malabsorption?
Endoscopy and small bowel biopsy
What is coeliac disease?
T cell responses to gluten in the small bowel causing villous atrophy and malabsorption
What gene is associated with 95% of cases of coeliac disease?
HLA DQ2
What gene is associated with 5% of cases of coeliac disease?
HLA DQ8
What is coeliac disease associated with? (2)
1) Autoimmune disease
2) Dermatitis herpetiformis
What are the 2 peaks of prevalence of coeliac disease?
Childhood and 50-60 yrs
What should we suspect in patients with diarrhoea, weight loss and anaemia?
Coeliac disease
Give 6 presenting features of coeliac disease
- ) Bad smelling stools/steatorrhoea
- ) Diarrhoea
- ) Abdominal pain
- ) Bloating
- ) Nausea and vomiting
- ) Aphthous ulcers
- ) Angular stomatitis
- ) Weight loss
- ) Fatigue
- ) Weakness
- ) Osteomalacia
- ) Failure to thrive
What main antibodies are found in coeliac disease? (3)
1) Anti-transglutaminsae (IgA)
2) Anti-endomysial
3) Deamidated gliadin peptide
What do blood tests show in coeliac disease? (4)
- ) Decreased Hb
- ) Increased red cell distribution width
- ) Low B12
- ) Low ferritin
What is the treatment for coeliac disease?
Lifelong gluten free diet
Give 3 complications of coeliac disease
- ) Anaemia
- ) Dermatitis herpetiformis
- ) Osteopenia/osteoporosis
- ) Hyposplenism
- ) GI T cell lymphoma
- ) Increased risk of malignancy
- ) Neuropathies
- ) Secondary lactose intolerance
What is irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)
A group of mixed abdominal symptoms for which no organic cause can be found
What are most IBSs though to be due to? (3)
Disorders of intestinal motility, enhanced visceral perception, microbial dysbiosis
How do we diagnose IBS?
Recurrent abdominal pain/discomfort with at least 2 of:
- ) Relief by defecation
- ) Altered stool form
- ) Altered bowel frequency
Give 3 other features of IBS
- ) Urgency
- ) Incomplete evacuation
- ) Abdominal bloating/distension
- ) Mucous PR
- ) Worsening of symptoms after food
- ) Nausea, bladder symptoms, backache
What the the chronic symptoms of IBS often exacerbated by? (3)
- ) Stress
- ) Menstruation
- ) Gastroenteritis
What drug do we give for constipation?
Lactulose
What drug do we give for diarrhoea?
Loperamide
What drugs do we give for bloating/colic in IBS?
Antispamodics
What non medical treatment is given in IBS
CBT and hypnotherapy
What do we need to diagnose IBS if the history is classic? (4)
FBC, ESR, CRP, coeliac serology
What is ulcerative colitis?
A relapsing and remitting inflammatory disorder of the colonic mucosa
Where does UC not spread past?
Ileocaecal valve
What is UC in the rectum named?
Proctitis
What is UC in the left part of the colon named?
Left-sided colitis
What is US in the entire colon named?
Pancolitis
What is the cause of UC?
Inappropriate immune response against possibly abnormal colonic flora in genetically susceptible individuals
What is the difference in lesions between UC and Crohn’s?
UC has distinct cut off line, Crohn’s has skip lesions
Is UC or Crohn’s more common in non-smokers?
UC
What is the pathological appearance in UC? (2)
1) Hyperaemic/haemorrhagic colic mucosa +/- pseudo polyps formed by inflammation
2) Punctate ulcers may extend deep into lamina propria
Give 3 GI symptoms of UC
- ) Episodic/chronic diarrhoea (+/- blood and mucus)
- ) Crampy abdominal discomfort
- ) Bowel frequency relates to severity
- ) Urgency/tenesmus = proctitis
Give 3 systemic symptoms of a UC attack
Fever, malaise, anorexia, weight loss
Give 3 signs of acute severe UC
Fever, tachycardia, tender distended abdomen
Give 4 extra intestinal signs of UC
- ) Clubbing
- ) Aphthous oral ulcers
- ) Erythema nodosum
- ) Conjunctivitis
- ) Episcleritis
- ) Iritis
- ) Large joint arthritis
- ) Sacroilitis
- ) Anklosing spondylitis
- ) Primary sclerosing cholingitis
- ) Nutritional deficits
What 5 tests do we do for UC?
- ) Blood
- ) Stool MC&S/CDT
- ) Faecal calprotectin
- ) AXR
- ) Lower GI endoscopy
What does MC&S stand for?
Microbiology culture & sensitivity
What does CDT stand for?
Carbohydrate deficient transferrin test
What 3 things does an AXR show in UC?
- ) No faecal shadows
- ) Mucosal thickening/islands
- ) Colonic dilatation
Give 2 acute complications of UC
- ) Toxic dilatation of colon with risk of perforation
- ) Venous thromboembolism
- ) Decreased K+
Give a chronic complication of UC
Colonic cancer
What do we treat mild UC with?
5-amino salicylic acid (mesalazine)
What do we treat moderate UC with? (2)
- ) Prednisolone
- ) Then maintain on 5-ASA (mesalazine)
What do we treat severe UC with?
Admit by nil by mouth with:
- ) IV hydration
- ) IV steroids (hydrocortisone)
- ) Thromboembolism prophylaxis
- ) Daily tests
What do we give if they improve on severe UC treatment?
Prednisolone
What do we give if they don’t improve on severe UC treatment?
Colectomy
What do we give in UC if there is no remission with steroids?
Immunomodulation (azathioprine)
What are UC and Crohn’s both types of?
Inflammatory bowel disease - IBD
What is Crohn’s disease?
A chronic inflammatory disease characterised by transmural granulomatouss inflammation affecting any part of the gut from the mouth to anus
Where does Crohn’s especially occur?
Terminal ileum and proximal colon
What causes Crohn’s disease?
Inappropriate immune response against possibly abnormal gut flora in genetically susceptible individuals
Does UC or Crohn’s have skip lesions?
Crohn’s
What drugs may exacerbate Crohn’s
NSAIDs
Give 3 GI symptoms of Crohn’s
- ) Diarrhoea
- ) Abdominal pain
- ) Weight loss/failure to thrive
Give 3 systemic symptoms of Crohn’s
- ) Fatigue
- ) Fever
- ) Malaise
- ) Anorexia
Give 3 GI signs of Crohn’s
- ) Bowel ulceration
- ) Abdominal tenderness/mass
- ) Perianal abscess/ fistulae/ skin tags
- ) Anal strictures
Give 2 extra intestinal signs of Crohn’s
- ) Clubbing
- ) Skin, joint and eye problems
Give 4 complications of Crohn’s
- ) Small bowel obstruction
- ) Toxic dilatation
- ) Abscess formation
- ) Fistulae
- ) Perforation
- ) Colon cancer
- ) PSC
- ) Malnutrition
What tests do we do in Crohn’s?
- ) Blood
- ) Stool
- ) Colonscopy and biopsy
- ) Barium enema
- ) Small bowel MRI
What does a barium enema show in Crohn’s? (3)
- ) Cobblestoning
- ) Deep fissuring ulcers
- ) Strictures
What lifestyle changes do we advise in Crohn’s?
Smoking cessation and optimisation of nutrition
What do we give to treat mild attacks of Crohn’s?
Prednisolone
What do we give to treat severe attacks of Crohn’s?
- ) IV hydration/electrolytes
- ) IV steroids (hydrocortisone)
- ) Thromboembolism prophylaxis
What do we give if the patient is improving on severe Crohn’s treatment?
Prednisolone
What do we give if the patient is not improving on severe Crohn’s treatment?
Biologics - anti-TNFalpha, infliximab
What treatment is given in perianal disease of Crohn’s?
- ) Oral antibiotics
- ) Immunosuppressant therapy
- ) +/- anti-TNFalpha
- ) Local surgery
- ) Metronidazole
What is bowel obstruction?
Blockage to the lumen of the gut
What are the 3 types of obstruction?
1) Intraluminal
2) Intramural
3) Extraluminal
What is Hirschsprung’s disease?
Developmental abnormality of an aganglionic segment - no rhythm cells, so impaired motility
Give 2 causes for a SBO
- ) Adhesions
- ) Hernias
Give 4 causes for a LBO
- ) Colon cancer
- ) Constipation
- ) Diverticular stricture
- ) Volvulus
What are adhesions?
Parts of the bowel connected by thin white fibrous bands
What are adhesions usually secondary to?
Previous surgery
What are 4 rarer causes of a bowel obstruction?
- ) Crohn’s
- ) Gallstone ileus
- ) Appendicitis
- ) Intussusception
- ) Foreign bodies
What are the 4 ways in which we classify bowel obstructions?
- ) Site
- ) Extent of luminal obstruction
- ) Mechanism (true/paralytic)
- ) Pathology
What are the 4 cardinal features of bowel obstruction?
1) Vomiting
2) Colicky pain
3) Constipation
4) Abdominal distension
What does fermentation of the intestinal contents in established obstruction cause?
Faeculent vomiting
What are the bowel sounds like in an obstruction?
Active, tinkling
What are the differences in presentation between a SBO and a LBO? (5)
- ) Vomiting occurs earlier in SBO
- ) Less distension in SBO
- ) Pain higher in abdomen in SBO
- ) Earlier constipation in LBO
- ) More constant pain in LBO
What is absolute constipation?
Obstipation
What are the bowel sounds like in a paralytic ileus obstruction?
Absent
What is a paralytic ileus?
Functional obstruction from decreased bowel motility, less pain
What is a simple bowel obstruction?
One obstruction point and no vascular compromise
What is a closed loop bowel obstruction?
Obstruction at 2 points forming a loop of grossly distended bowel at risk of perforation
What is a strangulated bowel obstruction?
Blood supply is compromised, sharper and more localised pain, peritonitis, possible fever
Give an example of a closed loop obstruction
Colonic volvulus
What is a closed loop obstruction due to?
Axial rotation at mesenteric attachments
What is the rule when looking at AXRs of bowel obstruction?
3-6-9 rule
What does a SBO look like on an AXR? (3)
- ) Central gas shadows with valvular conniventes that completely cross lumen
- ) No gas in large bowel
- ) Normal diameter of SB <3cm
What does a LBO look like on an AXR? (4)
- ) Peripheral gas shadows proximal to blockage
- ) Large bowel haustria do not cross lumen width
- ) Normal diameter of LB <6cm
- ) Normal diameter of caecum and sigmoid <9cm
What does an intersusseption look like on a CT?
Doughnut
What does a volvulus look like on a CT?
Coffee bean
What is the treatment for an obstruction?
Surgery - strangulations, LBOs, volvulus, hernias, tumours
Medical - Ileus, incomplete SBOs
What is the medical treatment for an obstruction?
- ) NGT
- ) IV fluids
- ) Analgesia
- ) Catheter
What is a pseudo-obstruction?
Like a mechanical GI obstruction but with no cause found
How do we treat a pseudo-obstruction? (2)
Neostigmine or colonscopic decompression
What is a sigmoid volvulus?
Bowel twists on mesentery and proceeds severe strangulated obstruction
How do we manage a sigmoid vovulus? (2)
Sigmoidoscopy and insertion of flatus tube
What is intussusception?
Where the small bowel telescopes, and there is invagination of one part into the other
What are intussusceptum and intussuscipien?
Intussusceptum - invaginating portion
Intussuscipien - receiving portion
How do we treat an intussusception?
Air enema
How do we diagnose an intussusception?
US
Where does acute mesenteric ischaemia almost always involve?
Small bowel
What are the 3 things acute mesenteric ischaemia may follow?
1) Superior mesenteric artery thrombosis/embolism
2) Mesenteric vein thrombosis
3) Non-occlusive disease
What is the classic clinical triad of presentation for acute mesenteric ischaemia?
1) Acute severe abdominal pain
2) No/minimal abdominal signs
3) Rapid hypovolaemia leading to shock
What is the pain like in acute mesenteric ischaemia?
Contant and central/around right iliac fossa
How are most diagnoses of acute mesenteric ischaemia found?
Necrotic bowel at laparotomy
What does an AXR show in acute mesenteric ischaemia?
Gasless abdomen
What are 4 findings on tests with acute mesenteric ischaemia?
1) Increased Hb
2) Increased WCC
3) Raised plasma amylase
4) Persistent metabolic acidosis (high lactate)
What are the 2 main complications of acute mesenteric ischaemia?
1) Septic peritonitis
2) Progression of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) to muti-organ failure
How do we treat acute mesenteric ischaemia?
Resus with fluid, antibiotics (piperacillin), LMWH/heparin, dead bowel surgically removed
What is the presenting triad of chronic mesenteric ischaemia?
1) Severe, colicky post-prandial pain
2) Weight loss (eating hurts)
3) Upper abdominal bruit
What are some other symptoms of chronic mesenteric ischaemia?
- ) PR bleeding
- ) Malabsorption
- ) Nausea and vomiting
What is chronic mesenteric ischaemia typically brought on by?
Combination of a low flow state with atheroma
What tests do we use to diagnose chronic mesenteric ischaemia? (2)
CT angiography and contrast enhanced MR angiography
How do we treat chronic mesenteric ischaemia?
Surgery is percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stent insertion
What is ischaemic colitis also known as?
Chronic colonic ischaemia
What does chronic colonic ischaemic usually follow?
Low flow in the inferior mesenteric artery territory
What is the presentation of chronic colonic ischaemia?
Lower left sided abdominal pain +/- bloody diarrhoea
What is the gold standard for diagnosis of chronic colonic ischaemia?
Lower GI endoscopy
What is the treatment for chronic colonic ischaemia?
Fluids and antibiotics
What does gangrenous ischaemic colitis present with? (2)
Peritonitis and hypovolaemic shock
What is the treatment for gangrenous ischaemic colitis?
Resus and resection of affected bowel and stoma formation
What is a GI diverticulum?
An out pouching of the gut wall
Where does a GI diverticulum usually occur?
At the sites of entry of perforating arteries
What is diverticulosis?
Inflammation of a diverticulum
What is diverticular disease?
Symptomatic diverticula, when the pouch fills with material that becomes secondarily infected
Which are the most important type of diverticulum?
Acquired colonic diverticula
Where are most colonic diverticula?
Sigmoid colon
What is the pathology of a diverticula?
High intraluminal pressure possible to due lack of dietary fibre force the mucosa to herniate through the muscle layers of the gut at weak points adjacent to penetrating vessels
How is peritonitis caused in diverticular disease?
Pouches rupture
How are diverticula usually found?
Incidental finding at colonoscopy
What test confirms a diagnosis of acute diverticulitis?
Abdominal CT
What does diverticular disease present with? (2)
- ) Altered bowel habit +/- left sided colic relieved be defecation
- ) Nausea and flatulence
What is a treatment of diverticular disease?
Antispasmodics (mebeverine)
What does diverticulitis present with?
Diverticular disease features and:
- ) Pyrexia
- ) High WCC
- ) High CRP/ESR
- ) Tender colon
- ) +/- localised/generalised peritonism
How do we treat mild attacks of diverticulitis?
Bowel rest (fluids only) +/- antibiotics
How do we treat less mild attacks of diverticulitis?
Admit for analgesia, NBM, IV fluids, IV antibiotics
Give 3 complications of diverticulitis
1) Abscess formation
2) Perforation
3) Haemorrhage
4) Fistulae
5) Post infective strictures
How does appendicitis occur?
Gut organisms invade the appendix wall after lumen obstruction by lymphoid hyperplasia, faecolith, or filarial worms
What does gut organisms invading the appendix wall lead to? (3)
- ) Oedema
- ) Ischaemic necrosis
- ) Perforation
What is the classic presentation of appendicitis?
Periumbilical pain that moves to the right iliac fossa
Give 3 associated signs of appendicitis
- ) Tachycardia
- ) Fever
- ) Peritonism with guarding and reboud/percussion tenderness in RIF
- ) Anorexia
- ) Constipation
- ) Possibly vomiting, diarrhoea
What do we use to diagnose appendicitis?
CT
What does CRP stand for?
C-reactive protein
What does ESR stand for?
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
What is the treatment for appendicitis? (2)
- ) Appendicetomy
- ) Antibiotics (piperacillin, metronidazole, cefuroxime)
What is peritonitis?
Inflammation of the peritoneum
Give 4 causes of peritonitis
Perforation of:
- ) Peptic/duodenal ulcer
- ) Diverticulum
- ) Appendix
- ) Bowel
- ) Gallbladder
What is the classification of peritonitis? (4)
- ) Onset
- ) Origin
- ) Cause
- ) Location
Give 3 symptoms of peritonitis
- ) Pain
- ) Tenderness
- ) Systemic symptoms
Give 4 signs of peritonitis
- ) Prostration
- ) Lying still
- ) Positive cough test
- ) Tenderness (+/- rebound)
- ) Abdominal righty
- ) Guarding
- ) No bowel sounds
- ) Shock
How do we differentiate peritonitis from pancreatitis?
Serum amylase levels (raised in pancreatitis)
What may an erect CXR show in peritonitis?
Gas under the diaphragm
What colour is the fluid on peridyalisis?
Yellow (infection)
What ascites lactate level is 100% sensitive of an infection?
> 25mg/dL
What is the management of peritonitis?
- ) Resus
- ) Antibiotics
- ) Treat cause
What is a hernia?
An abnormal protrusion of a viscus/part of a viscus through a defect of the wall of its containing cavity into an abnormal position
What is a irreducible hernia?
Contents cannot be pushed back into place
What is an obstructed hernia?
Bowel contents cannot pass
What is a strangulated hernia?
Ischaemia occurs
What is an incarceration hernia?
Contents of hernial sac are stuck inside by adhesions
Which is the most common hernia, and which gender is it more common in?
Inguinal, male
What are the 2 types of inguinal hernia?
1) Indirect
2) Direct
Where does an indirect inguinal hernia pass?
Through the internal inguinal ring, through the external ring if large
Where does a direct inguinal hernia go?
Pushes directly forward through the posterior wall of the inguinal cancel into a defect in the abdominal wall (Hesselbach’s triangle)
Is a direct or indirect inguinal hernia more common?
Indirect
Give 3 predisposing conditions for an inguinal hernia
- ) Male
- ) Chronic cough
- ) Constipation
- ) Urinary obstruction
- ) Heavy lifting
- ) Ascites
- ) Past abdominal surgery
How do we distinguish a direct inguinal hernia from an indirect one?
Reduce the hernia and occludes deep (internal) ring with 2 fingers. Ask patient to cough/stand. If the hernia is restrained, it is indirect.
Which side of the inferior epigastric vessels does each inguinal hernia arise?
Direct - medial
Indirect - lateral
What surgery do we do to repair an inguinal hernia?
Polypropylene mesh reinforces posterior wall
What are the 2 types of hiatus hernia?
1) Sliding (80%)
2) Rolling (20%)
What occurs in a sliding hiatus hernia?
Gastro-oesophageal junction slides up into the chest, acid reflux often happens
What occurs in a rolling hiatus hernia?
Gastro-oesophageal junction remains in abdomen but bulge of stomach herniates into chest alongside oesophagus
How do we treat a hiatus hernia?
- ) Weight loss
- ) GORD treatment
- ) Possibly surgery
What is a femoral hernia?
Where bowel enters the femoral canal
How does a femoral hernia present?
Mass in upper medial thigh or above inguinal ligament (points down leg)