GI-4 Flashcards
What is the most common infectious cause of inflammatory bowel diseases?
Viral enterocolitis/gastroenteritis
How is bacterial enterocolitis treated?
Broad-spectrum antibiotics
What is the most common infectious disease the hospitalizes patients and what causes it?
Pseudomembranous colitis, caused by c difficile
What are 2 non-infectious/idiopathic causes of bowel disease?
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s
Ulcerative colitis begins in what region and ends in?
Rectum and ends in the cecum
What is usually spared in ulcerative colitis? This separates it from?
The anus and terminal ileum
Crohn’s Disease
Flukes cause what illness?
Schistosomiasis
Entameba histlolytica causes? This leads to ulcers in?
Amebiasis
Ulcers around the ileocecal valve
What kind of cell is characteristic of giardia?
Owl eye cell
What are the 3 key characteristics of amebiasis?
- Flask shaped ulcer
- Erythrophagocytosis
- Amoebic abscesses in the liver
In ulcerative colitis, the disease is horizontal or vertical?
What is toxic megacolon?
Horizontal
Toxic megacolon in when there is a massive buildup of gas in the transverse colon that can lead to peritonitis
How is Crohn’s different from ulcerative colitis?
Vertical, discontinuous with skip areas of unaffected tissue
What type of ulcer is seen in Crohn’s?
Discrete pathos that can lead to fissures and fistulas
What can form around the ileocecal valve in half of Crohn’s cases?
Focal granulomas
What appears in Crohn’s disease that is seen in sarcoidosis?
Sarcoid-like granulomas
Crohn’s can involve what two areas that are not involved in ulcerative colitis?
Anus and small intestine