GI Flashcards
- HBsAg
- anti- HBs
- anti-HBc
What does it mean and what would you advise?
No immunity, no infection to Hep B
Advise vaccination
- HBsAg
+ anti-HBs - anti-HBc
What does it mean?
Immunity 2nd to immunization
+ HBsAg
- IgM anti-HBc
- Anti-HBs
+ Anti-HBc
Chronic Hep B
- HBsAg
+ Anti-HBs
+ Anti-HBc
Immune 2nd to infection
+ HBsAg
+ IgM anti-HBc
- Anti-HBs
+ Anti-HBc
Acute Hep B
Hep A markers- what do they indicate?
+ IgM
+ IgG
+ IgM = acute Hep A infection
+ IgG = infx gone and now immune
Screen for Hep C with that lab?
Anti-HCV- becomes positive as early as 8 weeks after exposure
Do you order HCV RNA if screening test is negative and you don’t know whether the pt has been exposed?
Yes.
If Anti-HCV is NEG and the pt may have been exposed within 6 months OR exposure is unknown - order what?
HCV RNA
If anti-HCV is + & HCV RNA is + what does that mean?
Active Hep C infx
+ anti-HCV
- HCV RNA
No infx
False + screen
Patients who are + for Hep C or Hep B- what do you do?
Refer to GI
Absent bowel sounds?
1st test?
Ileus
Flat & erect abdo x-ray
+ mc Barney’s point?
Definitive diagnostic test?
Appendicitis + abdo CT
Pain upper R quadrant
-diagnostic test?
- if 1st test inconclusive?
Cholecystitis
US
HIDA Scan
Lower L quad pain + fever
Imaging?
Treatment?
Diverticulitis
CT = definitive
Ciprofloxacin + Metronidazole
Abdo pain + dilated loop of bowl=
Imaging?
Obstruction
Flat & erect abdo x-ray
Adult with acute periumbilical pain?
Appendicitis
Abdo CT
Elevated Billi
Normal LFTs
Gilbert’s disease- benign