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GI-4 Flashcards

1
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What is the most common infectious cause of inflammatory bowel diseases?

A

Viral enterocolitis/gastroenteritis

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How is bacterial enterocolitis treated?

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Broad-spectrum antibiotics

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What is the most common infectious disease the hospitalizes patients and what causes it?

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Pseudomembranous colitis, caused by c difficile

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What are 2 non-infectious/idiopathic causes of bowel disease?

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Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s

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Ulcerative colitis begins in what region and ends in?

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Rectum and ends in the cecum

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What is usually spared in ulcerative colitis? This separates it from?

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The anus and terminal ileum

Crohn’s Disease

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Flukes cause what illness?

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Schistosomiasis

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Entameba histlolytica causes? This leads to ulcers in?

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Amebiasis

Ulcers around the ileocecal valve

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What kind of cell is characteristic of giardia?

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Owl eye cell

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10
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What are the 3 key characteristics of amebiasis?

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  1. Flask shaped ulcer
  2. Erythrophagocytosis
  3. Amoebic abscesses in the liver
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In ulcerative colitis, the disease is horizontal or vertical?
What is toxic megacolon?

A

Horizontal

Toxic megacolon in when there is a massive buildup of gas in the transverse colon that can lead to peritonitis

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How is Crohn’s different from ulcerative colitis?

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Vertical, discontinuous with skip areas of unaffected tissue

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What type of ulcer is seen in Crohn’s?

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Discrete pathos that can lead to fissures and fistulas

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What can form around the ileocecal valve in half of Crohn’s cases?

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Focal granulomas

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What appears in Crohn’s disease that is seen in sarcoidosis?

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Sarcoid-like granulomas

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Crohn’s can involve what two areas that are not involved in ulcerative colitis?

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Anus and small intestine

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17
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What antibodies are seen in UC and CD?

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UC see ANCA autoantibodies

CD see antibodies to Saccharomyces cervisiae

18
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Pain in joints or arthalgias are seen in UC or CD?

19
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Which UC or CD causes a higher risk of colon cancer?

20
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There is a higher risk of what in CD?

A

Anal and ileal disease

21
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What is the most common kind of non-neoplastic polyp?

A

Hyperplastic

22
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What are the two kinds of neoplastic polyps?

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Adenoma and lymphomas

23
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Familial adenomatous polyposis is called what when found in the colorectal area?

A

Gardener’s syndrome

24
Q

How is Peutz-Jeghers inherited and what gene is affected?

A

Autosomal dominant mutation of STK11

25
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Peutz-Jeghers causes? Where does cancer develop?

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Hamartomatous polyps with no malignant potential in the small intestine, stomach, and colon

Develops near the polyps not in it unlike FAP

26
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How does peutz-jeghers present itself orally?

A

Peri-oral pigmentation or freckles

27
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What 2 molecular events predispose a person to adenocarcinoma of the colorectal?

A

APC pathway and microsatellite instability

28
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What is APC pathway and it may be inherited with?

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Chromosomal instability that is inherited with FAP

29
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What is micro satellite instability and what is it inherited with?

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DNA mismatch repair that is inherited with Lynch Syndrome

30
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When does obstruction occur in adenocarcinoma of the colon?

A

When the cancer is in the transverse or left colon

31
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In adenocarcinoma of the rectum barium will show?

A

Apple core stricture

32
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Carcinoid tumors are derived from? They often cause?

A

Neuroendocrine cells, intussception because they occur near the ileocecal valve

33
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What 2 things can cause acute pancreatitis?

A

Alcoholism and gallstones

34
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How do alcohol and gall stones cause pancreatitis?

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Alcohol can change the viscosity of the secretions and the enzymes get stuck and activated within the pancreas itself

35
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Acute pancreatitis can lead to what more severe conditions?

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Generalized systemic inflammation, vasodilation and permeability, shock and adult respiratory distress

36
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What is chronic pancreatitis?

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Repeated bouts of mild to moderate inflammation

37
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Over time chronic pancreatitis leads to?

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Fibrosis and fewer enzymes produced leading to malabsorption

38
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What mutations are associated with pancreatic tumors?

A

Kras and p53

39
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Pancreatic endocrine tumors are derived from? What happens when there are beta cell tumors?

A

Islet cells

beta cell tumors leads to insulin hyper secretion and hypoglycemia

40
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When does pancreatic cancer present itself?

A

Only once the patient has severe pain or metastasis

41
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What is the triad of symptoms seen in pancreatic tumors?

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Attacks of hypoglycemia, precipitated by fasting, CNS symptoms

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