Gastrointestinal Disease (GI) Flashcards
What are patient’s who treated with proton pump inhibitors at increased risk for?
C. difficile diarrhea
What is the most likely diagnosis for anorexic patient presenting with severe post-prandial abdominal pain, bilious vomiting, early satiety, and Xray showing gastric distention, dilation of the proximal duodenum, and abrupt vertical cutoff of air in the 3rd portion of duodenum?
Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (SMA syndrome)
What rash is associated with kawasaki disease?
widespread morbilliform rash that is particularly prominent in the perineum and intertriginous areas
What abdominal manifestation is common in kawasaki disease?
Gallbladder hydrops
gallbladder distention by sterile bile- noncalculous distention
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient presenting with regurgitation of solid and liquid food, weight loss, and barium swallow showing dilated esophagus that terminates into beak like manner?
Achalasia
increased resting pressure of lower esophageal sphincter on esophageal manometry
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient with ulcerative colitis who presents with fatigue, pruritis, hepatosplenomegaly and elevated GGT and alkaline phosphatase?
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
progressive chronic inflammation and fibrosis of hepatic bile ducts
What is the diagnostic test of choice for primary sclerosing cholangitis?
Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient with recurrent episodes of vomiting that lasts hours to day followed by symptom free periods lasting weeks to months in the setting of family history of migraines?
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
A patient with barium enema showing aganglionic distal narrowed segment with a normal ganglionic segment proximal dilated segment is consistent with …
Hirschsprung disease
What increases the risk of Hep B infection transmission to neonate?
positive Hep B e antigen
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient with history of atopy presenting with dyspahgia, odynophagia, heart burn, chest pain, regurgitation, food impaction and stricture formation?
Eosinophillic Esophagitis
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient (6-36 months old) presenting with acute sudden recurrent abdominal pain episodes, vomiting, blood in stool, sausage shaped mass in right upper quadrant and target sign on ultrasound?
Intussusception
associated with Henoch-Schonlein purpura
What is the most common presentation of Meckel diverticulum?
painless rectal bleeding
due to ectopic gastric and pancreatic tissue
What is the most likely diagnosis of infant with cholestatic jaundice (elevated conjungated bilirubin and elevated transaminases), HIDA scan showing no drainage from liver into intestine, liver biopsy showing bile duct proliferation and fibrosis, and absent gallbladder?
Biliary atresia (tx- immediate surgery to improve chance of drainage)
What is the most likely diagnosis of patient with severe pain with swallowing after high dose steroids and found to have multiple discrete shallow well circumscribed ulcers in distal third of esophagus on endoscopy?
Herpes esophagitis
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient with acne on doxycyline who presents with dysphagia (difficulty swallowing solids)?
Pill induced esophagitis
especially if take pill without water
What is the most likely diagnosis for patient with intermittent unconjungated hyperbilirubinemia with normal liver function tests especially in setting of illness?
Gilbert syndrome (due to defect/ low in glucuronyl transferase enzyme)