GI Flashcards
Layers of GI
-Epithelium thrown into folds
-muscularis mucosa
-submucosa
-submucoasl pplexus
-Circular
Myenteric plexus
longitudinal
serosa
PANS
Vagal is a mixed nerve and supplies the mid and foregut
- Hindgut is supplied by pelvic nerves
- release Ach and active peptides (VIP and substance P)
- Synapse on enteric nervous system in two plexuses and modulates action
- Vasovagal responses and reflexes
SANS
short presynaptic and long postynaptic
- Celiac
- Superior Mesenteric
- Inferior Mesenteric
- Hypogastic (supplies GU for sexual response)
- Sensory and motor
Enteric
Intrinsic and can funtion in the absence of the other two
- Plexuses
- Also gets input from local receptors
Omphalocele
- Gut contents fail to return to gut after they extend into yolk sac through vitelling duct
- Covered by peritoneum
- Surgical Repair
- Commonly see elevated AFP on triple screen
- Can be associated with Beckwith Wiederman and other congenital anomalies
- Midline
Gastroschesis
- Failure of the lateral body folds to close, often associated with vascular injury during birth
- There will be no peritoneum covering gut contents
- Elevated AFP
- Occurs lateral to the umbilicus
Malrotations
Most commonly involves the cecum being located in the RUQ
- Adhesions that attempt to make it go secondarily retroperitoneal lead to LADD bands that compress duodenum
- Lad bands cause bilious vommiting
- Also can be a nidus for volvulus
Midgut Volvulus
- Winding of midgut around SMA leading to compresssion and ischemia
- Bilious vommiting and necrosis of bowel
- Necrosis with widespread air fluid levels in the bowel
Duodenal Atresia
- Failure to recanalize duodenum after endodermal proliferation
- Highly associated with Downs
- Bilious Vomitting and may present with polyydramnios from impaired swallowing
- Can also be non billious depending on location
- Associated with other defects
Pyloric Stenosis
Hypertrophy of pyloric sphincter that leads to inability to empty stomach
- Palpable olive commonly
- Nonbillious vommiting
- Polyhydramnios
- Seen more commonly in firstborn males
Pancreatic Divism
- Normally ventral bud migrates around to the back and joins with dorsal bud
- Most of organ is in the dorsal bud, but the main pancreatic duct is in the ventral bud
- Divisim can be assymptomatic or can lead to stenosis of the accessory duct and pancretittis
- Also, malrotation can lead to annular pancreas that compresses duodenum
TE fistula
- Esophagus ends in blind pouch and then fistualizes with traches
- Cyanosis, bubbling, and drooling at birth
- Emergency, risk of aspiration pneumonia and cyanosis
- Will also see air int he stomach
Arcuate Line
- Location where the transversalis fascia goes from passing posterior to passing anterior of the rectus
- Location where epigastrics enter rectus
Inguinal Canal
- Deep Ring is lateral to epigastrics and is formed with transversalis fascia
- Internal oblique forms the cremaster
- External oblique forms the superficial ring that is medial to the epigastrics
Femoral Canal
Inferior to inguinal ligament
- Contains femoral sheath with artery and vein (vein being medial) (venous by penis)
- Nerve passes laterally and outside of sheath
- Lymphatics and saphenous pierce
Retroperitoneal
- 2 (Descending), 3 transverse, and 4 (ascending) duodenum
- Head, body of pancreas
- rectum, ascending and descending colon
Intraperitoneal
1st duodenum (bulb)
tail of pancreas
Sigmoid (redundant mesentery that is liable to volvulus)
Lesser Sac
-Epiploi foramen that contain the common bile duct, portal vein, and hepatic artery
Lateral Hypothalamus
- Causes hunger and food seeking behaviors
- Is inhibited by leptin
- Destuction leads to apathy and anorexia
DM hypothalamus
- Causes satiety
- Destruction leads to aggression and hyperphagia
- Leptin stimulates
Salivary Glands
Stimulated by PANS (watery) and SANS (Viscous)
-Flow rate determines ioinic conentation
-Higher flow is more hypertonic
-Lower flow is mor hypotonic
-Major regualation by absortion of Na
-HCO3 is constant and rich in hypotonic souatin
-Normally Cl and Bicarb predominate
-Lipase can digest through stomah
-Amylase can’t
-CN7 controls submandibular (seromucous) and sublingual (mucous)
CN9 does parotid (serrous)
Esophagus
Superior is skeletal muscle from 4th pharyngeal pouch contraolled by vagus at ambiguus
- Inferior is smooth muscle controlled by vagus and dorsal motor 10
- Squamous epithelium
Swallowing
- Esophagus has negative rpessure, UES prevents air and LES prevents gastric
- Primary peristalsis is from overiding vagal
- Secondary is local reflex archs
- Retching is vomitting against closed UES so food returns to stomach
Stomach Anatomy
- Fundus is superior (Short gastrics)
- Cardia
- Body (Parietal and Chief Cells)
- Antrum: Mucous Cells and G Cells
Digestions
- Intrinsic rate is determined by interstitial cells of cajal
- MMC (motilin) causes contraction every 90-120 mins
- Cephalic phase is mediated by the vagus nerve
- Gastic Phase is mediated by stomach distension
- Intestinal phase is mediated by amino acids, chyme in intestine
Parietal Cells
- CA produces H and HCO3
- The H is exchanged with H/K exchangers and HCO3 is sent into blood (To keep electroneutrality, Cl is sent into stomach with H)
Parietal Cell Stimulation
- Vagal stimultion via Gq M3
- Gastrin Stumlation via Gq (released from G cells in antrum and dudodenal cells)
- H2 works through Gs
- PG and somatostatin are Gi
Receptive relaxation
-Dilation of body and fundus to receive food, mediated by vagal and CCK
Gastrin
- Released in response to distension of stomach and peptides in GI
- Inhibited by GIP
- Also inhibited by secretin, VIP, and somatostatin
Absorption
Can absorb alcohol and aspirin (weak acid is protonated in GI and can traverse membranes) -Treat overdose with HCO3 to trap in tubule
Duodenum
1st: peritoneal, duodenal ulcer may bleed though gastroduodenal
2nd: AMpula of vater. Mid and foregut difference
3: Crosses midline, SMA goes over (SMA syndrome)
4: Ascending, ligament of trietz
Brunner GLands
Intestinal glands that secete a heavily alkaline mixture
Paneth
Innate immunity, protect stem cells in crypts
Fe
Fe 2+ in duodenum. Put there by vitamin C
Folate
Jejunum
B12
terminal ileum (IF receptors)
CCK
I Cells: Stimulates receptive relaxation, increases gallbladder contraction and pancreatic secretions
-Slows gastric emptying
Secretin
S Cells
-Trophic for panreas, HCO3
GIP
K Cells inhibits gastrin and stimulates insulin
Motilin
ECL cells
VIP
Released from vagus
- Motility and increased Secretions from intestine
- decreases gastin
Colonc
Site of bacterial fermentation that generates vitamin K
Can secrete K and HCO3
-There is no MMC in colon
-1-3 times per day there is a large mass movement that propels food into rectum to initiate the recto-defecation reflex
Exocrine Pancreas
Stimulated by secretin, CCK, Vagal
Secretes inactive precursors that are activated by trypsin
-Typrsinogen is activated by enterokinase (only necessary peptidase)
Liver
Hepatocytes: Zone 1 is periportal and zone 3 is perivenous (Centrilobular)
Bilirubin
- Transported back to blood via a Na/Bile transporter
- Heme is converted to water soluble biliverdin in tissues by heme oxygenase
- Biliverdin is then converted to bilirubin by biliverdin hydroxylase and transported on albumin to hepatocytes
- Carrier mediated entry into hepatocytes where in the ER it is conjugated to glucuronide to be secreted
- Secreted in bile
- Oxidized by intestinal bacteria to urobilinogen. majoirty is excreted as sterobilin in the feces, 10% is resorbed and secrteted as urobilin in the urine
Bile
Cholesterol is made into cholesterol acids where it is then conjugated to taurine and glycine to make watersolube/ amphipathic
Then sent through biliary ducts to be stored in gallbladder
-Gallbladder has columnar epithelium that concentrates (Na/K ATPase) and secretes in response to vagal and CCK. Inhibited by somatostatin
-Emulsifies fats, needs to work with co-lipase and then resorbed in the terminal ileum 95%
Mouth Lesions
Lichen Planus
- Oral Candidiasis scaping off will cause bleeding, but can be scraped off
- Hairy Oral Leukoplakia: EBV, lateral tongue, can’t be scraped off
- Leukoplakia: Precursor to SCC
- SCC associated with smoking and alcohol
- Melanoma also a possible cancer
Salivary Tumors
- Warthins: Associated with smoking: Lymphocytic infiltrate that forms germinal centers. Good prognosis, but can recur
- Pleiomoprhic Adenoma: Multiple cell types but usually include cartillage. Good prognosis and is benign, but may recur
- Mucoepidermoid: Mucinous cells that stain with mucous stains. Malignant and worse prognosis of them all. May be painful because of involvment of the facial nerve
Infections
- S ureus is the most common
- Mumps also causes parotiditis
Sjogrens
-Causes dry eyes and dry mouth
SS-A/B Ro/La
Can cross placenta and cause heart block in neonate
Esophageal diverticula
-Zenkers is the most common, and occurs above the cricopharyngeous which is inferior pharyngeal constrictor, below thyopharyngeus. UES is same as inferior pharyngeal constrictor
False diverticulum which is a pulsion diverticulum with only the mucosa protruding through
-Can be false near LES or true midesophageus (associated with TB or chronic inflammation
Achalasia
- Loss of myenteric plexus is key inciting event
- Can be congenital or secondary to Chagas Disease
- Scleroderma also causes a similiar picture
- Loss of VIP and NO from vagal inputs to myenteric plexus
- Low tone above LES and high tone at LES, but LES is usually normal
- Risk factor for SCC because of inflammation
- Inability to swallow solids or liquids
- May also be secondary to cancer, TB, sarcoidosis
GERD
- Loss of LES tone and increase in pressure (Pregnancy, obesity) leads to reflux of gastric contents
- Pain, cough, and adult onset asthma is a risk for intestinal metaplasia
Barrett’s
Intestinal metaplasia of esophagus secondary to chronic inflammatoin from GERD
- Bile acids may play a role
- Eosinophils will be present as well as basal layer hypertrophy and increased size of papillary projections
- HerbB2 +
Adenocarcinoma
-Occurs in distal 1/3 of esophagus and is associated with Barrett’s as are risk factors
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Associated with inflammation and occurs in upper 1/3
- Achalashia, Zenkers, Chemical ingestion, infections, Smoking, alcohol, hot drinks
- Both cancers tend to spread locally and have a poor prognosis
Esophageal Infection
- Generally occurs in the context of immunodeficecny
- Candida causes a white membrane
- CMV causes linear ulcerations and HSV causes punched out ulcerations