GI Buzzers Flashcards
Causes of liver disease?
(ABCDEFGHI) Autoimmune Hep B Hep C Drugs e.g. Paracetamol Ethanol Fatty liver disease Growth (mets) Haemodynamic e.g. Congestive heart failure Infiltration
Pancreatitis causes?
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Gallstones
Ethanol
Trauma
Steroids Mumps Autoimmune Scorpion Hyperlipidaemia/hypercalcaemia ERCP Drugs
Gingival hypertrophy
Side effect of calcium channel blockers or phenytoin
Bird beak appearance
Achalaasia
Grey turners (lumbar redness) and Cullen’s sign (umbilical redness)
Acute pancreatitis
Murphy’s sign positive
Cholecystitis
Pale stools
Jaundice
Abdo pain
Biliary obstruction
Abdo distension
Caput medusa
Shifting dullness
Portal hypertension
And ascites
Pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodusum
Crohns
UC
Tinkling bowel sounds
Bowel obstruction
Vesicular rash and weight loss
Coeliac disease
Virchows node
Gastric carcinoma
Urea breath test
H pylori
Carbon 14 breath test
Bacterial overgrowth
Rice water like stools
Vibrio cholera
Cobblestone mucosa.
Crohn’s disease
What is the diuretic for ascites due to cirrhosis
Spironolactone
Corkscrew esophagus on barium swallow
Diffuse oesophageal spasm
Severe abdo pain and d and v after drinking raw milk
Campylobacter
Russell’s sign
Self induced vomiting
Mallory’s hyaline bodies
Alcoholic liver disease (acute hepatitis) and chronic active hepatitis
Crypt abscess or cryptitis
IBD - crohns
Onion skinning fibrosis, beading of bile ducts
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Signet ring cells seen on biopsy
Linitis plastica - diffuse stomach cancer
Thumb printing on x ray commonly at splenic flexure
Ischemic colitis
Charcots triad
Fever, jaundice, abdo pain
- acute cholangitis secondary to cholelithiasis
Causes for abdo mass?
A chemical AAA Crohns Hernia Enlarged organ Malignancy Intusseception Cyst or abscess Appendicitis Lymphadenopathy
Causes for bowel obstruction
BATH VIPS Bolus Adhesions Tumour Hernia
Volvulus
Intersussception
Pseudo-obstruction
Stricture
