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GI Flashcards

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Causes of abdominal pain (7)

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  • Peptic ulcer disease
  • GORD
  • Pancreatitis
  • Biliary pain
  • Bowel obstruction
  • GI malignancy
  • IBS
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What are the two main causes of peptic ulcer disease?

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Helicobacter pylori and NSAIDs

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How can you diagnose a H.pylori cause of peptic ulcer disease?

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  • CLO test (uses a gastric biopsy taken during gastroscopy)

- H.pylori faecal antigen

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Treatment for H.pylori peptic ulcer disease

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PPI and 2 Abx (7 day treatment)

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Complications of peptic ulcers

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Bleeding and perforation

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GORD risk factors

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Elevated BMI
Pregnancy
Alcohol
Dietary

Anything that relaxes the lower oesophageal sphincter

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What is Barrett’s oesophagus?

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metaplasia where normal squamous epithelium is replaced by columnar epithelium – a premalignant condition

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How is Barrett’s diagnosed?

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o Acetic acid (pushed through endoscope – highlights abnormal mucosa or evidence of dysplasia) – allows for targeted biopsies

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When should patients with Barrett’s undergo regular surveillance?

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Surveillance if males, long segment Barrett’s, ulcer present

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What is the treatment of Barrett’s oesophagus?

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Long term PPI

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Management of GORD

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Medical management in most cases - PPI (+lifestyle changes)

More severe cases - can have surgical management (Laparoscopic Nissen’s fundoplication)

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Causes of pancreatitis

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Alcohol, gallstones, drugs

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Management of pancreatitis

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fluids, analgesia, antibiotics if indicated, early feeding

o Antibiotics not routinely used, only in some scenarios

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Complications of pancreatitis

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o	Sepsis/shock
o	ARDS
o	Pancreatic abscess
o	Pancreatic pseudocyst
o	Pancreatic ascites – rupture of the pancreatic duct and leakage of amylase-rich fluid into peritoneal cavity – treatment with stent insertion across pancreatic duct
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Causes of diarrhoea

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  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Infective
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Malabsorption (coeliac, pancreatic)
  • Drugs
  • Factitious (self-induced e.g. by taking laxatives
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16
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Causes of bloody diarrhoea

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  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Colonic Crohn’s disease
  • Infective
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17
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How to tell the difference between IBD and infective cause of bloody diarrhoea.

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o Infective diarrhoea tends to be a shorter Hx with worse pain than in IBD

Should send stool cultures to rule out infection

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What is the effect of smoking on UC and Crohn’s respectively?

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UC = protective

Crohn’s = aggravates

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Typical endoscopic findings in IBD

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UC - superficial, continuous lesions

Crohn’s - transmural, skip lesions, cobblestoning

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Infective diarrhoea classical features

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  • Short history
  • Abdominal pain usually a feature and can be bloody or non-bloody
  • Campylobacter jejuni - a common cause of travelers’ diarrhoea
  • Clostridium difficile (pseudomembranous colitis) – seen in hospitalised sick patients, antibiotic use a risk factor. Usually non bloody
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Management of UC/Crohn’s

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• Oral and local steroids and 5ASA preparations

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Management of severe acute colitis

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o IV steroids (methyl prednisolone hydrocortisone), DVT prophylaxis
o Nutritional support
o If no response (Trulove’s criteria) in 3-4 days surgical opinion, second line treatment (biologics like infliximab and adalimumab)

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23
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Long term management of IBD

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o	5ASA (benefit more in UC) + azathioprine
o	Can adjust azathioprine dose by measuring metabolites in blood (6TGN and 6-MMPN levels)
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24
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Side effects of azathioprine

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bone marrow suppression, pancreatitis and hepatotoxicity and malignancy especially skin

25
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How can the risk of bone marrow toxicity be predicted if taking Azathioprine?

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by TPMT enzyme levels

26
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Treatment of IBD that still creates symptoms despite Azathioprine

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consider biologics: Infliximab, vedolizumab, tofacitinib

27
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Coeliac disease

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  • Positive antiendomysial and tissue transglutamase antibody
  • D2 biopsy shows villous atrophy
  • Gluten free diet corrects malabsorption, improves symptoms and reduces risk of malignancy (EATL)
28
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Causes of malabsorption

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Coeliac disease
Small bowel Crohn’s disease
Chronic pancreatitis

29
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Causes of dysphasia and associated features

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•	Oesophageal cancer:
o	Weight loss, progressive symptoms
•	Benign stricture 
o	History of GORD
•	Motility disorder
o	Painful dysphasia
•	Achalasia cardia
o	Young
•	Stroke
o	Neurological signs and symptoms, coughing/choking on swallowing
30
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Causes of upper GI bleed

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Peptic ulcer disease
Varices
Upper GI malignancy
AV malformations

31
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Causes of lower GI bleed

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Haemorrhoids/anal fissure
Colonic cancer
Diverticular disease
Angiodysplasia

32
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GI bleed management (non-variceal)

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  • Stabilize haemodynamically
  • Transfuse based on clinical need and not level of haemoglobin (keep Hb between 7-9 grams)
  • Gastroscopy once resuscitated
  • IV PPI if stigmata of recent bleed on gastroscopy and endoscopic treatment performed
  • If there is evidence of peptic ulcer consider H pylori eradication
33
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GI bleed management (variceal)

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  • Correct coagulopathy (thromboelastrography)
  • Avoid fluid overload as raises portal pressure
  • IV Terlipressin
  • IV antibiotics
  • Endoscopic banding
34
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What procedure can be done for more severe variceal bleeding?

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Balloon tamponade +/- TIPSS procedure

35
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Causes of microcytic anaemia

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Iron deficiency

Thalassemia

36
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Causes of macrocytic anaemia

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Acute blood loss
B12/folate deficiency
Hypothyroidism
Bone marrow infiltration 
Alcohol
37
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Risk factors associated with oesophageal cancer

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Achalasia, Barrett’s, alcohol, obesity

38
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Risk factors associated with stomach cancer

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Nitrates/nitrites, ethnicity, pernicious anaemia, prior surgery

39
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Risk factors associated with pancreatic cancer

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DM, chronic pancreatitis, mucinous cystadenomas, obesity

40
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Risk factors associated with colon cancer

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COLONIC POLYPS

Long standing IBD, FAP, HNPCC, Alcohol, obesity

41
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Common symptoms of oesophageal cancer

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Weight loss

Dysphasia

42
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Common symptoms of stomach cancer

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Anaemia, weight loss, vomiting

43
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Common symptom of pancreatic cancer

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Jaundice

44
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Common symptoms of Colon cancer

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Weight loss, anaemia, rectal bleeding, changes in bowel habit

45
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Which LFTs are raised significantly in a hepatic picture?

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AST and ALT

46
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Which LFTs are raised significantly in a cholestatic picture?

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Bilirubin, ALP

47
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When ALT is more than 10x its normal value and ALP is less than 3x normal. What is the potential cause?

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Hepatocellular injury

48
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When ALT is less than 10x its normal value and ALP is more than 3x normal. What is the potential cause?

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Cholestasis

49
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If ALT>AST - what is the likely picture

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Chronic liver disease

50
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If ALT is

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Cirrhosis or acute alcoholic hepatitis

51
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If ALP is very high, what test should this be considered alongside?

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GGT

52
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If ALP and GGT are both high - possible causes

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  • Biliary epithelial damage
  • Bile flow obstruction
  • Alcohol and drugs
53
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If ALP is high, but GGT is normal - possible causes

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Non-hepatobiliary pathology or pathologies that increase bone breakdown (e.g. malignancies)

54
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What can cause raised bilirubin?

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Liver damage

Severe RBC damage (e.g. haemolysis)

55
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Colour of urine if unconjugated bilirubin is high

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Normal

56
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Colour of urine if conjugated bilirubin is high

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Dark

57
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Cancer of head of the pancreas can

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obstruct the bile duct and cause obstructive jaundice

58
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Causes of painful jaundice

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Cancer of the head of the pancreas

Cholangio carcinoma

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