GI/Nutritional (10%) Flashcards
There is increased incidence of pyloric stenosis with the use of what medication?
Erythromycin, in infants <6 months of age
What are risk factors for developing Vit C deficiency?
diets lacking raw citrus fruits & green vegetables (excess heat denatures vitamin C), smoking, alcoholism, malnourished individuals, elderly
What is the incubation period of salmonella gastroenteritis?
5-14 days
What is the method of transmission for Hep A?
Heb B?
Hep C?
Hep D?
Hep E?
A: Feco oral (international travel, water/food)
B: parenteral, sexual, perinatal, percutaneous
C: parenteral (IV drug use)
D: requires Hep B to cause co-infxn or superimposed infxn
E: feco-oral
How to make a dx of Crigler-Najjar syndrome?
Type 1 levels of serum indirect bilirubin?
Type 2 levels of serum indirect bilirubin? When may this level increase?
Isolated indirect (unconjugated) hyperbilirubinemia with normal LFTs
Type 1: 20-50 mg/dL
Type 2: 7-10 mg/dL (may increase during illness or fasting)


Secretory diarrhea is characterized by (low/normal/high) osmotic gap, (small/large) volume, (decrease/no change/increase) in diarrhea with fasting
normal
large
no change
Appendicitis most commonly occurs in patients in what age group?
10 y/o - 30 y/o
If a patient has persistent sx or complications of GERD, what test is often performed first?
Endoscopy
What is the incubation period of salmonella?
What are some places/things a person might contract it from?
Clinical manifestations? For a patient with sickle cell dz?
Management?
6-48 hours
Most common source is poultry products (dairy, meat, eggs), exotic pets (petiles, turtles) –> feco-oral
mucousy-bloody diarrhea
SCD pts: increased risk of osteomyelitis with salmonella
Fluids, if severe: Fluoroquinolones
What is the incubation period of enerohemorrhagic E. coli 0157:H7?
What are some places/things a person might contract it from?
Does it produce a (cytotoxin/enterotoxin/exotoxin)?
Clinical manifestations?
Management? What about abx?
4-9 days
undercooked ground beef, unpasteurized milk/apple cider, day care centers, contaminated water
cytotoxin
watery diarrhea early on that turns bloody, crampy abd pain, vomiting, fever low grade or absent
Fluid replacement, abx controversial as there is increased incidence of hemolytic uremic syndrome in children
What are some examples of protozoans that can cause enterocolitis?
Giardia Lamblia
Amebiasis
If jaundice occurs in the first 24 hours of life, (physiologic/pathologic) jaundice may be suggested, and usually indicates ______ or ______ _______
pathologic
hemolysis or hereditary spherocytosis
Pyloric stenosis is caused by _______ & ______ of the muscular layers of the pylorus, causing a functional (inlet/outlet) obstruction
Hypertrophy & hyperplasia

What is another name for Vitamin C?
Ascorbic acid
What causes osmotic diarrhea?
Malabsorption of nonabsorbalble substances in the intestinal lumen with secondary accumulation of fluid, the increased solutes in the GI tract promotes diarrhea by pulling water into the gut
What other sx are commonly associated with GERD?
What are some sx that are atypical?
heartburn increased with supine position 30-60 min after a meal
regurgitation
dysphagia
nocturnal cough
Atypical: hoarseness, aspiration PNA, “asthma” (bronchospasm from acid contact with the lung), nocardiac chest pain
What is the enzyme required to convert indirect bilirubin into direct bilirubin?
Glucuronosyltransferase [UGT]
What is often used as an initial screening test to see if a pt has hirschsprung disease?
What is used for definitive diagnosis?
Anorectal Manometry
Rectal Bx (can also use rectal suction bx–less invasive and do not need anesthesia)
What are possible complications of GERD?
esophagitis
stricture
barretts esophagus
esophageal adenocarcinoma
What is the incubation period of shigella?
What are some places/things a person might contract it from?
Clinical manifestations?
Complications? In children?
What would be seen on CBC? Sigmoidoscopy?
Management? If severe?
1-7 days
feco-oral contamination
lower abd pain, high fever, tenesmus, explosive watery diarrhea that is mucoid and bloody
Complications: severe cases may lead to toxic megacolon, reactive arthritis (Reiter’s syndrome), and neurologic manifestations especially in young children (febrile sz)
CBC shows leukemoid reaction (WBC >50,000)
Sigmoidoscopy: shows punctate areas of ulceration
Fluids, if severe: Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole 1st line
What are some examples of organisms that can cause invasive infectious diarrhea?
Campylobacter enteritis
Shigella
Salmonella
Enterohemorrhagic E Coli 0157:H7
Yersinia enterocolitica
What is the infective organsim that causes Whipple’s disease?
In what employment population is this condition most common?
Clinical manifestations?
Dx?
Management?
Tropheryma whippelii
Farmers (around contaminated soil)
Malabsorption, wt loss, statorrhea, rhythmic motion of eye muscles while chewing
Duodenal bx, showing periodic acid-schiff + macropgaes, non acid fast bacilli, dilation of lacteals
PCN or tetracycline for 1-2 years

There is an increased incidence of duodenal atresia in patients who also have _____ ______
Down syndrome







































