GI Tract, Liver, Pancreas Flashcards
What is the most appropriate elective operation for a patient with ulcerative colitis?
Total proctocolectomy with ileal pouch anal anastomosis and diverting ileostomy
What is the safest and most effective treatment for achalasia?
Esophagomyotomy– The operation of choice is a modified laparoscopic Heller myotomy.
Surgery results and improvement in more than 90% of patients, compared with 70% of patients treated by forceful dilatations
Treatment of choice for noninfected pancreatic pseudocyst
Internal drainage
Treatment of choice for infected pancreatic pseudocyst
External drainage – percutaneous catheter drainage with antibiotics
Most frequent serious complication of and colostomies
Parastomal herniation – commonly occurs when the stoma is placed lateral to The rectus muscle
Best study to evaluate for a pancreatic mass?
Helical contrast enhanced CT
Treatment for acute variceal bleed?
– Isotonic crystalloids followed by transfusion of blood
– Elevated prothrombin times should be corrected with fresh frozen plasma
–Octreotide or vasopressin to decrease splanchnic bloodflow
–Balloon tamponade
Treatment for persistent gastric ulcer unresponsive to medical therapy. What is the next best step in management?
– Distal gastrectomy with gastroduodenostomy
Or with gastrojejunostomy to definitively rule out a malignancy
This is a partial gastrectomy with vagotomy
Method to document the eradication of H. pylori infection?
Carbon labeled urea breath test
Sensitivity and specificity greater than 95%
Type of polyps seen in peutz jeghers syndrome
Hamartomas – no malignant potential
What are the indications for surgical intervention for diverticular disease?
– Hemorrhage secondary to diverticulosis
– Recurrent episodes of diverticulitis
– Intractability to medical therapy
– Complicated diverticulitis
Treatment for diverticular abscess
– Percutaneous drainage
–Sigmoid resection with primary anastomosis
Treatment for perforated diverticulitis?
Hartman procedure – sigmoid resection with end colostomy and rectal stump or
Sigmoid resection, anastamosis, diverting loop ileostomy
How do you diagnose biliary dyskinesia? What is the treatment?
A gallbladder ejection fraction of less than 35% at 20 minutes is diagnostic
Treatment is cholecystectomy
48-year-old with right lower quadrant pain that develops a playing tennis. Progresses with low-grade fever, leukocytosis, anorexia nausea. Ultrasound shows mass and abdominal wall. Most likely diagnosis?
Hematoma of the rectus sheath
Treatment for amoebic liver abscesses?
Metronidazole monotherapy
Treatment for pyogenic liver abscesses?
Percutaneous catheter drainage and antibiotics against gram-negative and anaerobic organisms
Best way to determine the proper treatment for his sliding hiatal hernia?
Flexible endoscopy
72-year-old man with hematochezia, fever, abdominal pain. What is it? Management.
Ischemic colitis
Expectant management – IV fluids, bowel rest, supportive care
Definitive treatment for hepatic adenoma?
Resection
Lesions greater than 4 cm in size of an increased risk of rupture with hemorrhage
Hepatic adenomas also have a risk of malignant transformation to well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma
Treatment for focal nodular hyperplasia?
Resection only if lesion is symptomatic.
FNH cannot be distinguished from hepatic adenoma on CT scan, nuclear medicine scan may demonstrate hot lesion for FNH or cold lesion for hepatic adenoma
Treatment for iatrogenic injury of the common bile duct resulting in stricture?
End to side choledochojejunostomy (Roux-en-y) performed over a stent. Primary repair of the common bile duct may result in recurrent structure
When is polypectomy adequate treatment when malignant cells are identified in colonic polyp, and invasive component is identified?
(1) no vascular or lymphatic invasion is present
(2) there is an adequate negative margin – 2 mm
(3) cancer is not poorly differentiated
Where do most gastrinoma’s occur?
90% are located within the gastrinoma triangle – the three corners are defined by the junction of the second and third portions of the duodenum, junction of the neck and body of the pancreas, junction of the cystic and common bile duct