GI Flashcards
typical patient with sigmoid volvulus
elderly
constipated
abdominal pain
coffee bean AXR
sigmoid volvulus
loop of distended bowel
paralytic ileus presentation
adynamic bowel (lack of normal peristalsis) can cause constipation, painful abdominal distension and absent bowel sounds
Colorectal carcinoma presentation
acutely as bowel obstruction, with symptoms of constipation and abdominal pain
red flags: weight loss, night sweats
Intussusception
part of the intestine slides into an adjacent part of the intestine
intussusception presentation
nonspecific abdominal pain that comes and goes, change in bowel habit and decreased/absent bowel sounds
children <5
Hirschsprung disease
presents with childhood
nerve cells in the bowel cause problem with peristalsis
achalasia
degenerative loss of ganglia from auerbach’s plexus
dysphagia to solids and liquids
sometimes accompanied by regurgitation
globus hystericus cause
anxiety
mechanism of cirrhosis
degeneration and necrosis of hepatocytes, and replacement of liver parenchyma by fibrotic tissues and regenerative nodules, and loss of liver function
peginterferon
viral hepatitis
azathioprine
autoimmune hepatitis
Ursodeoxycholic acid
Primary biliary cholangitis
mechanism of PSC
autoimmune destruction of both the intra and extra hepatic bile ducts
mechanism of PBC
Autoimmune destruction of intra-hepatic bile ducts only
gallstone ileus
form of small bowel obstruction caused by gallstone in the small intestine
gallstone enters bowel via cholecysto-enteric fistula
Acute cholecystitis presentation
RUQ pain- radiate to right shoulder positive murphys sign fever nausea tachycardia
primary sclerosing cholangitis presentation
jaundice chronic RUQ pain pruritus fatigue heptomegaly
raised serum amylase
acute pancreatitis
Appendicitis presentation
central pain radiating to RIF
mild pyrexia, tachycardia
rebound tenderness
vomited