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1
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Pain 1-3 hours following a meal

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S&S of a peptic ulcer

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2
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Heart burn that worsens at night, chest pain, difficulty swallowing, and regurgitation of food

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GERD

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Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease are forms of`

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

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4
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The most common type of hernia

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Inguinal

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5
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The cause of this syndrome is un known

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Irritable bowel syndrome

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6
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S&S Weakness, vomiting, measles like rash, dark urine

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Hep B

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7
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This is often linked to alcoholism

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Acute pancreatitis

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8
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Inflammation and infection of the diverticulum

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Diverticulitis

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9
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The most likely cause of cirrhosis is

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Alcohol

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10
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S&S sudden fever and abdominal pain in the lower right quadrant

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Acute Apendicitis

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S&S Upper right quadrant pain, referred to back and right shoulder, indigestion

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Gallstones

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12
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This often has a delayed diagnosis due to the original symptoms being non specific

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Crohn’s

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13
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Inflammation of the mouth

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Stomatitis

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14
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Difficulty swallowing

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dysphagia

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15
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Cause: LES is not functioning properly allowing stomach acids to back flow from stomach into the esophagus

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GERD

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S&S: dysphagia, pain and some times bleeding of malodorous breath. Painfull swallowing.

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Carcinoma of the esophagus

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17
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These tumors are locally invasice and spread into lymph nodes and surrounding mediastinal organs

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Carcinoma of the esophagus

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18
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S&S Bleeding of the stomach

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ACUTE blood in vomit
CHONIC Blood in feces

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19
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A disease characterized by the formation of divertiulum (out pouches in the intestinal wall)

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Diverticulosis

20
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This disease is characterized by recurrent inflammation of the intestines and a chronic predictable course

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IBD - inflammatory bowel disease.

21
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Chronic inflammation of the GI tract, most often involving the terminal ileum and colon - segmental

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Chrohn’s

22
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intestinal inflammation that often involves the large intestine and sometimes appendix involved

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Ulcerative colitis

23
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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.

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Crohn’s disease.

24
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staph, aureus, e. coli, clostridium botulinum

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food poisoning/bacterial toxins

25
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Caused by enterogenic bacteria of the normal intestinal flora

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acute appendicitis

26
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Inflammation of the peritoneal lining of the abdominal cavity, caused by bacteria primarily enteric in origin.Intestinal peristalsis slows down until becomes paralyzed

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Peritonitis

27
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S&S Sharp abdominal pain, rebound tenderness and voluntary guarding of the abdominal muscles.

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Peritonitis

28
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S&S severe pain radiating to the back. pain increases when supine and decreases when bending forward.

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acute pancreatitis

29
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A disease in which the pancreas does not produce enough digestive enzymes

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Pancreatic insufficiency.
2 major causes
cystic fibroses and chronic pancreatitis

30
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S&S Diarrhea and weight loss

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pancreatic insufficiency

31
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A common disorder that affects the large intestine.
Cause unknown

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IBS

32
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S&S cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation or both. chronic condition

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IBS

33
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S&S will be dependants on nutritional deficiency that result.

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Malabsorption resulting from defective transport of nutrients.
Gastro Lymphoma/Congestive hears failure with intestinal ischemia

34
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Non-neoplastis polyps/benign neoplasms/malignant neoplasms

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classification of intestinal tumors

35
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S&S will vary dependant on where the tumor occurs

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adenocarcinoma of the colon

36
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Posthepatic jaundice
causes

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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

37
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common hepatitis viruses

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hep, A,B,C

38
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Infection is usually of the fecal oral route

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HEP A

39
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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

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HEP A

40
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Due to DNA virus - blood and or sexual contact

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HEP B

41
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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.

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HEP B

42
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Viral hep, due to contact with contaminated blood and or blood products or sexual contact

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HEP C

43
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HEP C massage precausions

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Wear gloves

44
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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.

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HEP C

45
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Hep C and alcoholism account for the majority causes of this disease

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cirrhosis

46
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S&S Indigestion, pain in the upper right quadreant and may referral to back and right shoulder, right scap or between the sapula

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Gallstones

47
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Metastatic carcinoma of the liver

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metastases reach the liver through the portal and arterial blood system and are related to primary tumors of the GI, Lungs, and breast.

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