GI MEDICINE Flashcards
LIVER AND NEURO SIGNS?!?!?!?!?!
WILSONS DISEASE MOTHERFUCKER OMG CAN U PLEASE LEARN THIS FINALLY
Ix for acute mesenteric ischaemia
Venous Blood Gas and Serum Lactate
Symptomatic Relief in Carcinoid
Octreotide
What is co-administered with isoniazide to prevent peripheral neuropathy
Pyridoxine (vitamin b6)
Key side effect of aminosalicylate?
AGRANULOCYTOSIS
Diagnostic Test for Pancreatic Cancer
High Resolution CT
Genes for
Familial Adenomatous Polypopsis (FAP)
HNPCC (Lynch Syndrome)
MSH1/2
APC
Glasgow Blatchford Scale
Rockall Scale
FOR UPPER GI BLEEDS
GB: Used to assess if can be managed in outpatients
Rockall: Used to assess recurrence risk
Sweet Fecal Smell?
Liver Failure
Bile Acid Malabsorption?
Cholestyramine
Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Mx
Prednisolone
Essential Examination in young man with RIF pain
Scrotal Exam
Mx of IBS symptoms
Pain: Antispasmodics (DIcyclomine)
Constipation: Laxatives but NOT LACTULOSE
Diorrhoea: Loperamide
Globus Pharyngus
Lump in the throat
Discomfort on swallowing saliva
AST/ALT ratio 2:1
ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS