GI FA Flashcards
Most common cause of lower GI bleed > 40
Diverticulosis
Diagnostic test for equivocal US in cholecystitis
HIDA scan
Risk factors for cholithiasis
Fat, forty, female, fertile, flatulent
Inspiratory arrest during palpation of the RUQ
Murphy’s sign (acute cholecystitis)
Most common cause of SBO with or without history of abd surgery
Adhesions
Hernia
Charcot’s triad
RUQ pain, jaundice, fever/chills. (Ascending cholangitis)
Difference between Mallory-Weiss and Boerhaavr tears
Mallory-Weiss: superficial tear. Boerhaave: full-thickness rupture
IBD extraintestinal findings
Uveitis, ankylosing spondylitis, pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum, primary sclerosing cholangitis
25 year old with pain, watery diarrhea after meals. Fistulas between bowel and skin, nodular tibia lesions.
Crohn’s
Most common diarrhea?
Campylobacter
Diarrhea with recent abtibiotics
C diff
Camping diarrhea
Giardia
Traveler’s diarrhea
ETEC
Church picnics/mayonnaise diarrhea
S aureus
Uncooked hamburgers diarrhea
E Coli O157:H7