GI Flashcards
Recurrent abdominal pain definition
Once/week for last 2 months
What meds should you consider for functional abdomial pain
Anticholinergic, amitriptyline, SSRI
Definition of IBS
- Pain and relief with defection or onset associated with change in for or frequency of bowel movements
- At least once per week over the course of 2 months
- Tends to occur in families
- No organic cause
Rx for IBS
Reduce sorbitol, fructose, cruciferous veggies, increasing soluble fiber, SSRIs/TCAs
Pattern: Pain in upper abdomen, no signs of gastritis on endocsopy, esophageal pH testing
Non-ulcer dyspepsia
Pattern: acute, incapacitating, periumbilical pain; anorexia, nausea, vomiting, HA, pallor, photophobia, symptom-free periods
abdominal migraine
Test for Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction
ERCP manometry, HIDA scan
What is the cause of familial mediterranean fever
serositis causing abdominal pain
Vomiting and fever
infection, inflammation
Vomiting and tenderness/guarding
inflammation
vomiting and tachycardia, loss of skin turgor, dry mucous membranes
Dehydration
vomiting and sclerodactylyl
scleroderma
vomiting and loss of dental enamel
GERD, bulimia
Vomiting and adenopathy
neoplasm
vomiting and high pitched bowel sounds
obstruction
vomiting and absent bowel sounds
ileus
asterixis
uremia, liver failure
Vomiting and air-filled distended loops
ileus, pseudo-obstruction
vomiting and retained food in upper endoscopy
gastroparesis
What evaluation would you do for dysphagia?
upper GI, endoscopy, esophageal manometry
4 anatomic congenital causes of dysphagia
Esophageal web, tracheobronchial remnant, vascular ring, Schatzki ring (ring of mucosa/muscular tissue in distal esophagus)
What can esophageal strictures that cause dysphagia be caused by?
caustic ingestion or chronic GERD
Ingestion of alkalis can cause what injury
deep liquefaction necrosis through all layers
Ingestion of acids cause what injury
Thick eschar that limits depth of injury, bitter taste limits ingested volume
Pattern: salivation, refusal to drink, nausea and vomiting, epigastric pain, burns or ulcerations to lips or mouth, fever and leukocytosis
Caustic ingestions
Rx of caustic ingestions
oral administration of water or milk to dilute, intubation if airway edema, EGD within 48 hours to assess burns, broad spectrum antibiotics for suspected perforation/mediastinitis
How to detect radiolucent foreign bodies in esophagus
endoscopy
Within how many hours can button batteries cause perforation?
4 hours
When does GERD peak
4 months
Risk factors for GERD
Down syndrome, MRCP, prematurity
Test for gastroparesis
nuclear med gastric emptying
Pattern: baby fails to pass meconium (multiple)
Hirschsprung, anal stenosis, intestinal peudo-obstruction, hypoTH, meconium plug
What genetic disorder predisposed to Hirschsprung?
Down
What are dx tools for Hirschsprung
unprepared barium enema, full thickness biopsy and do ACh staining
Rx for Hirschsprung’s
Colonic resection, endorectal pull-through
Pattern: delayed passage of meconium, signs of obstruction, FTT, enterocolitis, soiling rare, anal fissure/fecal impaction rare, behavioral problems rare, small stool caliber
Hirschsprungs
Pattern: frequent soiling, difficulty toilet training, stool in the rectal vault on PEx, very large stools, no FTT
Functional constipation
GI bleeding in infant
milk protein allergy
GI bleeding in child
anal fissure, juvenile polyp, swallowed epistaxis, PUD, intussusception
GI bleeding in adolescent
IBD, bacterial enteritis, anal fissure, Mallory-Weiss, polyp
Pattern: 16yo with colonic adenomas
Familial adenomatous - polyposis APC gene mutation, 100% risk ofCA
Pattern: small bowel and colonic adenomas and supranumerary teeth
Gardner’s syndrome, APC mutation, 100% risk of colon CA
Pattern: hamartomatous polyps, lip/gum freckling, requiring polypectomy
Peutz-Jegher’s; sl increase in colon CA
Pattern: hamartomatous polyps in small bowel and colon
Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome PTEN, SMAD4, BMPR1 gene mutations, 10% risk of colon CA
Pattern: colonic adenomas, endometrial/renal/GBM
Hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer
Pattern: 2.5 yo with intermittent painless rectal bleeding that can become infected, followed by intussusception and can cause obstruction
Meckel’s Diverticulum
What is the diagnosis for Meckel’s diverticulum?
Technetium-pertechnetate scan, increased sensitivity with ranitidine
What tests to do to confirm serologic H pylori cause of peptic ulcer dx?
urea breath hydrogen testing or stool H pylori antigen testing
Caveat to interpreting serologic H pylori testing
May be old infection
Rx for H pylori
PPI plus two antibiotics (amoxicillin and clarithromycin) for 14 days
What are causes of secretory diarrhea?
cholera, toxigenic e. coli, C. difficile, cryptosporidiosis
What are causes of inflammatory diarrhea
salmonella, shigella, staph aureus, yersinia, campylobacter, B cereus
Do you need to treat salmonella?
No. carriers are typically asymptomatic
Do you need to treat shigella?
Bactrim, pt always symptomatic, person to person transmission
Diarrhea and reactive arthritis
salmonella, shigella, yersinia, campylobacter
Diarrhea and bloody diarrhea
HUS
Diarrhea and short incubation
C. perfringens, B. cereus
Diarrhea and seizures
shigella
Pattern: diarrhea for >1 week, stool cultures negative
parasitic - giardia, cyclospora, isospora
Pattern: fever 1-2 days, vomiting followed by 5 to 7 days diarrhea, no stool wbcs
Viral - rota adeno astro noro
Causes of Diarrhea >1 day in first month of life
Cow’s milk protein allergy, sucrase-isomaltase, gluc-galact malabsorption, pancreatic insufficiency from Schwachman-Diamond syndrome
Causes of diarrhea in 1 month to 2 years of age
Toddler’s diarrhea, post-infectious enteropathy, parasitic (giardia lamblia), rota no nror and adeno
Suspicious of diarrhea after camping/daycare
stool antigen for giardia and treat with metronidazole
Causes of diarrhea in 2 to 18
Celiac sprue, post-infectious, excessive juice, IBS, IBD, laxative abuse
Pattern: small volume of diarrhea, bloody, mucoid, urgency and tenesmus
colitis, UC or infectious
Pattern: diarrhea, distension, gas, explosive
giardiasis or sorbital excess
Dx for celiac disease
EGD with biopsies
Dx for IBD
colonoscopy with biopsies
Dx for colitis
stool WBC’s
Dx for milk protein allergy
stool eosinophils
Dx for CF, Schwachman-Diamond
Fecal fat
Dx for giardia
stool antigen
Dx for carbohydrate malabsorption
stool reducing substances
Pattern: protracted diarrhea of infancy - longer than 2 weeks in infant (multiple)
chronic enteropathies, microvillus, inclusion disease, tufting enteropathy
Pattern: protracted diarrhea in childhood (multiple)
autoimmune enteropathy, celiac disease, post-infectious diarrhea
Best oral rehydration
pedialyte
Pattern: 10wk old with 2wk h/o watery, mucoid stools with strongs of bright red blood, gassy.
Milk protein allergy
Soy has what percentage cross over allergen with cow’s milk
40%
Can cow’s milk protein ingested by mom cross into breastmilk?
yes
What are two protein-losing enteropathy?
Lymphangiectasia, Crohn’s disease
What is Toddler’s diarrhea?
malabsorption of sorbitol and fructose
Pattern: steatorrhea, acanthocytosis
abetalipoproteinemia
Pattern: PLE, hypogamm, steatorrhea, lymphedema, lymphopenia
lymphangiectasia
What is malabsorbed in lysinuric protein intolerance
dibasic AAs
What is malabsorbed in Harnup disease
free neutral AAs
What is malabsorbed in blue diaper syndrome
tryptophan
What is malabsorbed in acrodermatitis enteropathica
zn
What is malabsorbed in Menke’s disease
cu
What is malabsorbed in terminal ileal disease (Crohn’s)
Folate, B12
Pattern: diarrhea, abdominal distension, proximal muscle wasting, weight loss, anorexia, abdominal pain
Celiac disease
Pattern: diarrhea, anemia, dermatitis herpetiformis or other immune disease
Celiac disease
What HLA class I molecule is associated with celiac disease?
gliadin, DQalphaBeta, haplotypes found in >95% of patients
Celiac disease is associated with what other immune disease
IgG deficiency and hypogammaglobulinemia
How would you screen for celiac disease?
Tissue transglutaminase IgA, antiendomysial antibodies (anti-gliadin not sensitive or specific)
gold standard for celiac disease diagnosis
upper endoscopy with biopsy
Dx for lactase deficiency
lactose breath hydrogen testing, lactase activity on duodenal biopsy or simple challenge/withdrawal
Pattern: Eskimo child, diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating with pureed fruits or juices or with starch/cornstarch
sucrase-isomaltase deficiency
Dx of sucrose-isomaltase deficiency
acid hydrolysis of stool first, hydrogen breath testing, enzyme activity in biopsy during upper endoscopy
Rx for sucrose-isomaltase deficiency
Restriction of sucrose containing foods, enzyme replacement with yeast enzyme sacrosidase (Sucraid)
Inheritance of sucrose-isomaltase and glucose-galactose deficiency
AR
Pattern: diarrhea at birth, dehydration and metabolic acidosis increase and lactose containing formula fed infant
Glucose-galactose malabsorption
Rx for glucose-galactose malabsorption
fructose only carbs pt can eat
What % of CF pt has pancreatic insufficiency?
85-90% by one year
How do you monitor pancreatic insufficiency in CF patient?
Fecal elastase
Pattern: pancreatic insufficiency, bone marrow failure (cyclic neutropenia, defect in neutrophil chemotaxis, thrombocytopenia, anemia) metaphyseal dysostosis, FTT, short stature, oily, sticky foul smelling stools
Schwachman-Diamond Syndrome
Differences between Schwachman-Diamond and CF
nl sweat test, no CF mutation, metaphyseal lesions, fatty pancreas on imaging, infection more generalized and not just primarily pulmonary
Major cause of morbidity and mortality for Schwachman-Diamond patient
pyogenic infections
Crohn’s or UC?
Transmural, skip lesions
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC?
Bimodal age, first peak during adolescence
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC?
obstructive small bowel disease, RLQ pain, fibrostenotic
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC?
cramping, diarrhea, bleeding colonic diseae
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC?
inflammatory becomes structuring, perforating
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? systemic signs, malaise, anorexia, growth failure/weight loss, pubertal delay
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? perianal disease, skin tags, fistulae
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? fistulae between loops of bowel (bowel to vagina or bladder or bowel to skin)
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? erythema nodosum, arthritis, aphthous ulcers, clubbing, episcleritis/uveitis, renal stones and gallstones
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? acute abdomen
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? anemia, thrombocytosis, hypoalbuminemia
Crohn’s
Crohn’s or UC? Anti-saccharomyces
Crohn’s