GI path Flashcards
Pain 1-3 hours following a meal
S&S of a peptic ulcer
Heart burn that worsens at night, chest pain, difficulty swallowing, and regurgitation of food
GERD
Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease are forms of`
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
The most common type of hernia
Inguinal
The cause of this syndrome is un known
Irritable bowel syndrome
S&S Weakness, vomiting, measles like rash, dark urine
Hep B
This is often linked to alcoholism
Acute pancreatitis
Inflammation and infection of the diverticulum
Diverticulitis
The most likely cause of cirrhosis is
Alcohol
S&S sudden fever and abdominal pain in the lower right quadrant
Acute Apendicitis
S&S Upper right quadrant pain, referred to back and right shoulder, indigestion
Gallstones
This often has a delayed diagnosis due to the original symptoms being non specific
Crohn’s
Inflammation of the mouth
Stomatitis
Difficulty swallowing
dysphagia
Cause: LES is not functioning properly allowing stomach acids to back flow from stomach into the esophagus
GERD
S&S: dysphagia, pain and some times bleeding of malodorous breath. Painfull swallowing.
Carcinoma of the esophagus
These tumors are locally invasice and spread into lymph nodes and surrounding mediastinal organs
Carcinoma of the esophagus
S&S Bleeding of the stomach
ACUTE blood in vomit
CHONIC Blood in feces
A disease characterized by the formation of divertiulum (out pouches in the intestinal wall)
Diverticulosis
This disease is characterized by recurrent inflammation of the intestines and a chronic predictable course
IBD - inflammatory bowel disease.
Chronic inflammation of the GI tract, most often involving the terminal ileum and colon - segmental
Chrohn’s
intestinal inflammation that often involves the large intestine and sometimes appendix involved
Ulcerative colitis
S&S - Diarrhea, abdominal pain and weightloss, constipation b/c of thickening of intestines.
- Fever may occure with some paitients.
- Weight loss, vitamin deficiency and anemia secondary to malabsorption are common in chronic stages.
Crohn’s disease.
staph, aureus, e. coli, clostridium botulinum
food poisoning/bacterial toxins
Caused by enterogenic bacteria of the normal intestinal flora
acute appendicitis
Inflammation of the peritoneal lining of the abdominal cavity, caused by bacteria primarily enteric in origin.Intestinal peristalsis slows down until becomes paralyzed
Peritonitis
S&S Sharp abdominal pain, rebound tenderness and voluntary guarding of the abdominal muscles.
Peritonitis
S&S severe pain radiating to the back. pain increases when supine and decreases when bending forward.
acute pancreatitis
A disease in which the pancreas does not produce enough digestive enzymes
Pancreatic insufficiency.
2 major causes
cystic fibroses and chronic pancreatitis
S&S Diarrhea and weight loss
pancreatic insufficiency
A common disorder that affects the large intestine.
Cause unknown
IBS
S&S cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation or both. chronic condition
IBS
S&S will be dependants on nutritional deficiency that result.
Malabsorption resulting from defective transport of nutrients.
Gastro Lymphoma/Congestive hears failure with intestinal ischemia
Non-neoplastis polyps/benign neoplasms/malignant neoplasms
classification of intestinal tumors
S&S will vary dependant on where the tumor occurs
adenocarcinoma of the colon
Posthepatic jaundice
causes
gall stones in the common bile duct, carcinoma of the head of the pancreas, carcinoma of the common bile duct, carcinoma of the gall bladder
common hepatitis viruses
hep, A,B,C
Infection is usually of the fecal oral route
HEP A
S&S short lived RNA infection, mild, enteric fever with vomiting, loss of appetite and jaundince
- does NOT become chronic and cirrhosis does not occure
HEP A
Due to DNA virus - blood and or sexual contact
HEP B
S&S weakness, vomiting, nausea, mild enlargment of the liver and tenderness, measles like rash in some, dark urine. Symptoms appear 40-180 days after infection.
HEP B
Viral hep, due to contact with contaminated blood and or blood products or sexual contact
HEP C
HEP C massage precausions
Wear gloves
S&S are the same as HEP B -weakness, vomiting, nausea, mild enlargment of the liver and tenderness, measles like rash in some, dark urine. Symptoms appear 40-180 days after infection.
HEP C
Hep C and alcoholism account for the majority causes of this disease
cirrhosis
S&S Indigestion, pain in the upper right quadreant and may referral to back and right shoulder, right scap or between the sapula
Gallstones
Metastatic carcinoma of the liver
metastases reach the liver through the portal and arterial blood system and are related to primary tumors of the GI, Lungs, and breast.
