Histo Flashcards
What is the typical chemotherapy regime used for non-resectable pancreatic cancer?
FOLFIRINOX
What is the most likely abnormality that will be found on his echocardiogram to explain his permanent atrial fibrillation and poor success at cardioversion?
Dilated left atrium
NOTE: Being in AF means you’re more likely to stay in AF. This is often due to atrial dilatation.
May develop heart failure.
Classification of AF
Permanent AF - Easiest. Always in AF despite optimal rhythm control (DCCV or antiarrhythmics)
Persistent AF - Remains in AF >7 days but not tried maximal rhythm control yet
Paroxysmal AF - Intermittent AF, lasts <7 days.
AF is also either primary AF (patient has no reversible cause of AF other than e.g. structural heart disease) or secondary AF (patient is in AF because they have a severe infection or have binged alcohol)
What further imaging is indicated for a confirmed transient ischaemic attack of the anterior circulation when neurological symptoms have resolved?
Carotid Ultrasound
Best investigation for pancreatic cancer
Appropriate first line investigation is CT
Neuroendocrine tumours
Insulinomas - Whipple’s triad of symptoms
Gastrinoma - Zollinger-Ellison syndrome + gastric ulceration
For patients with a confirmed anterior circulation TIA, next appropriate management?
imaging of the carotids (USS Carotid Dopplers) to consider them for a carotid endarterectomy
Which class of lupus nephritis on biopsy may show complete sclerosis of nearly all glomeruli?
Class VI
What is the most common type of breast cancer in the UK?
Invasive ductal carcinoma
A nephrologist is investigating an elderly gentleman with nephrotic syndrome.
A renal biopsy revealed normal histology when viewed under a light microscopy. There were no immune complexes detected in the biopsy either. There was no amyloid deposition.
Urinary Bence Jones Protein and serum electrophoresis were normal.
The patient responded well to steroids and their renal function is normal.
What is the most likely primary cause of the nephrotic syndrome?
Minimal change disease, as no depositon
What cancer is associated with the presence of “oat shaped cells” on biopsy?
small cell lung cancer
A 23 year old man visits their GP with a positive pregnancy test, which he did for a joke. A repeat pregnancy test in the surgery is also positive.
He denies any sexual activity in the last year.
What is the possible underlying diagnosis?
Testicular cancer
A 83 year old man is started on bicalutamide for treatment of his metastatic prostate cancer.
What is the method of action of bicalutamide?
Androgen antagonist
Head trauma causing loss of consciousness followed by a lucid interval before the patient deteriorates is a classical history of what cerebral pathology?
Extradural haemorrhage
What is the first line chemotherapy drug for treating prostate cancer in the UK?
Docetaxel
A 18 year old woman was stabbed in the groin at a party. Arterial blood flow was observed from the wound on scene. Haemostasis was achieved by bystanders.
She was stabilised on scene and transferred to hospital by air ambulance.
She lost an estimated 6 units of blood, however the air ambulance transfused one unit on scene and bolused two litres of 0.9% sodium chloride.
You perform an A-E assessment in the emergency department 30 minutes later. She is unconscious but tachypneic. You note the presence of a new, soft, systolic murmur.
Given the history, what type of murmur is this likely to be?
Flow murmur - Innocent
What condition is the presence of waxy casts in urine associated with?
Chronic Kidney disease
Other than zinc, what is the first line pharmacological treatment for Wilson’s disease?
Trientine
What is the name given to areas of regenerating mucosa which project into the lumen of the bowel, which may be visualised during a colonoscopy of a patient with ulcerative colitis?
pseudopolyp
A 55 year old gentleman with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder is seen by a psychiatrist. An ECG is performed as part of the workup for starting lithium, a mood stabiliser.
His past medical history includes an anterior STEMI 4 months ago.
The ECG shows ST elevation in leads V2, V3, V4 and V5. He denies chest pain, breathlessness or any other symptoms.
What is the diagnosis?
Ventricular aneurysm
What is persistent ST elevation post MI suggest? What are they at risk of?
Persistent ST elevation post myocardial infarction in the absence of chest pain or other ischaemic features is suggestive of the development of a ventricular aneurysm.
These patients are at high risk of ventricular free wall rupture and subsequent death. It is diagnosed through an echocardiogram or cardiac MRI.
A 68-year-old woman presents to her GP with a non-tender, hard lump with irregular borders in her left breast. She denies any nipple discharge, weight loss or malaise.
She was in a car accident 6 months ago and sustained significant bruising to the chest wall.
She undergoes triple assessment. Ultrasound shows a solid mass with indistinct margins.
The biopsy report is lost however the system recorded that the specimen was benign.
What condition may explain the lump?
Fat necrosis
What is the most common type of lung cancer in the UK?
Adenocarcinoma
A 83 year old woman was admitted to hospital for a severe chest infection. At the time of admission, her CURB-65 was 4. Her blood pressure was 80/40
She was diagnosed as having an acute kidney injury.
What is the likely cause of the AKI?
ATN secondary to sepsis and hypoperfusion
What condition is characterised by microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia, thrombocytopenia and stroke-like symptoms in an adult?
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
What histopathological description is given to cells that have lost their intercellular connections between neighbouring cells?
An example could be the loss of desmosomal connections in pemphigus vulgaris.
Acantholysis
What monoclonal antibody therapy targets human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 and is used in the treatment of breast cancer?
Trastuzumab
poor prognostic marker in breast cancer
Presence of HER2 is a poor prognostic marker (but does allow for treatment with trastuzumab - a monoclonal antibody therapy)
good prognostic marker in breast cancer
Presence of oestrogen receptor or progesterone receptor is good as it predicts response to oestrogen deprivation therapy.
eczema of nipple then areola
Paget’s disease of breast
oedema + pitting of breast
peau d’orange
What protein is defective in adult polycystic kidney disease?
Polycystin-1
What is the most common cause of a pulmonary embolus?
DVT
What is the most common histochemical stain used to visualise cells for light microscopy, such as that used for diagnosis of cancers?
Haematoxylin and eosin stain
A 55 year old woman presents to her GP with a number of painful fluid filled blisters in her mouth and on her body. They are relatively large, approximately 2-3cm on the body. She says they itch intermittently.
She feels well in herself and her type 1 diabetes is well controlled.
When you run your finger over the surface of one of the blisters on her arm, the roof of the blister easily comes away.
A biopsy reveals acantholytic cells, however the basal keratinocytes remain attached to the basement membrane.
What is the diagnosis?
Pemphigus vulgaris
NOTE: Pemphigus vulgaris presents with painful fluid filled blisters on the body and in the mouth, with acantholytic cells on biopsy. The roof of the blister easily comes away with light pressure.
The ECG leads II, III and aVF represent which region of the heart?
Inferior wall
What sign, which may be visible around the nails, is seen in Graves’ disease and is due to periosteal bone growth in the nail bed?
Thyroid acropachy
An 84 year old Asian woman presented to the ED with chest pain of 10 hours duration, which began while watching television. The pain was 9/10 and did not radiate. She reported being under extreme stress since the death of her 50 year old son a week ago.
An ECG revealed ST elevation in V2 and V3. Chest X ray was normal. Troponin and electrolytes were normal. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention was unremarkable with no occlusions and no evidence of atherosclerotic disease.
An echocardiogram showed apical akinesis with an ejection fraction of 36%. There was hypertrophy of the interventricular septum.
What is the diagnosis?
Takotsubo’s cardiomyopathy
What type of bladder cancer is associated with chronic cystitis?
sqaumous cell carcinoma
A 20-year-old man with cystic fibrosis presents to his GP with a chronic productive cough, that has been getting worse over the last two years. He is known to be colonised with pseudomonas aeruginosa.
His BMI is 18.5. Temperature in the surgery was 36.8c.
Examination revealed coarse crackles at the bases which shifted upon coughing.
Chest x ray was reported as showing tram-track opacities.
What is the diagnosis?
Bronchiectasis
CXR - tram track opacities
CT - signet ring sign
Bronchiectasis
Degeneration of neurons in the substantia nigra is implicated in the pathogenesis of what synucleinopathy?
Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
What condition is the presence of epithelial casts in urine associated with?
Acute tubular necrosis
What is the most appropriate treatment for non-small cell lung cancer that is present in both lungs?
Palliative care
What paraneoplastic syndromes are small cell lung cancers associated with?
Associated with SIADH (15% of patients), Cushing’s syndrome (5%), Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic syndrome (3%) and acromegaly
Kimmelstiel WIlson Nodules
Diabetes Nephropathy
Most common renal cancer
Renal cell carcinoma
Most common CNS tumour
Glioblastoma multiforme
Sarcoid histological finding
non-caseating epithelioid cell granuloma
PKD inheritance
AD
What cells are found in granulomas?
Activated epitheloid amcrophages
What disease are eosinophils involved in?
Parasitic infections and Hodgkin’s disease
Histological features of squamous cell carcinomas
keratin production, intercellular bridges, do NOT form glands
Histological features of adenocarcinomas
form glandular epithelium AND mucin glands that can SECRETE substances
Histological features of transitional cell carcinomas
stretchy epithelium
Histochemical and immunohistology stain
Histochemical stain – result from the chemical reaction between stain and the tissue
Immunohistology stain – antibodies against a specific antigen
Most common cancer in men
Prostate
Most common cancer overall
Breast
Most deadly cancer in men and women
Lung
What type of necrosis occurs in MIs? Why?
Coagulative (dry) occurs in MI’s blockage of blood vessel to heart muscle gets a wedge of infarction that is dry, doesn’t liquify just dies
What type of necrosis occurs in strokes? Why?
Liquefactive (wet) occurs in strokes brain is high fat organ similar process to coagulative as stroke is like an MI of brain but as lipid rich organ liquefactive. Can also occur in organs involving proteolytic enzymes
What type of necrosis is usually due to pseudomonas?
Gangrenous
What type of necrosis occurs due to TB?
Caseous granuloma (cordoned off, inflamed tissue) has cell death inside (“cheese-like”) seen in TB, non-caseating sarcoidosis
What type of necrosis occurs in acute pancreatitis?
Saponification fat necrosis binds with calcium to form soap crystals within dead tissue ACUTE PANCREATITIS
What type of necrosis occurs in AID, vasculitis or malignant hypertension?
Fibrinoid cell death within a vessel due to inflammation in AID or vasculitis, malignant hypertension fibrin leaks out of cell and deposits out of the cell fibrin deposition around vessel wall
Epithelial anatomy and what happens in BArrets
Epithelial anatomy:
- PROXIMAL 2/3RD SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM WHITE
- DISTAL 1/3RD COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM PINK
- JOINED BY THE SQUAMOUS COLUMNAR JUNCTION Z LINE
Barret’s After chronic GORD can get metaplasia in the oesophagus from squamous epithelial to columnar which have goblet cells upward movement of the SCJ
Difference between gastric and intestinal metaplasia
- GASTRIC METAPLASIA WITHOUT GOBLET CELLS
- INTESTINAL TYPE METAPLASIA WITH GOBLET CELLS
Most common oesophogael cancer in developed world? RFs? Anatomical location?
- ADENOCARCINOMA (MOST COMMON OESOPHAGAEL CANCER IN DEVELOPED WORLD)
o RFS: BARRETS, SMOKING, OBESITY
LOCATED IN DISTAL 1/3RD OF OESOPHAGUS due to GORD
Most common oesophogael cancer in developing world? RFs? Anatomical location?
- SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA MOST COMMON IN DEVELOPING WORLD
o RFS: SMOKING, ALCOHOL
LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE 1/3RD OF OESOPHAGUS (upper 2/3rds)
NOTE: THINK S’ –> squamous occurs due to smoking, superiorly
What GI condition can pernicious anaemia cause? What can this lead to?
can cause AI gastritis, can also cause atrophy leading to malabsorption
What bacteria can cause chronic gastritis?
H.Pylori in antrum
Difference ebtween gastritis and ulcer
ULCERS BREACH THROUGH MUSCULARIS MUCOSA INTO SUBMUCOSA
Most common cause of gastric ulcer
H.pylori
Most vulnerable area in GI tract to H.pylori, why?
DUODENUM IS MOST VULNERABLE TO H. PYLORI AS INCREASED ACID PRODUCTION LEAKS INTO DUODENUM CAUSING GASTRIC METAPLASIA (WITHOUT GOBLET CELLS)
NB: Intestinal type metaplasia with goblet cell
What cancers can H.pylori lead to?
Adenocarcinoma via metaplasia
Gastric MALToma
What are duodenal ulcers caused by?
H.PYLORI
GIARDIA LAMBLIA MOST IMPORTANT
What is Whipple’s disease caused by? How does it present? What does this lead to?
CAUSED BY TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII CAUSED DUODENAL ULCERS AND GASTRITIS
Leads to malabsorption in the small intestine
Atrophic gastritis is caused by
Pernicious anaemia
Most common cause of stomach cancer
adenocarcinoma
Histopathological sign of gastric adenocarcinoma
Signet ring cells
What type of cell is gastric MALToma mediated by?
B cells as it is a lymphoma, presents in the stomach
Difference in type of cells between acute and chronic inflam
acute - neutrophils
chronic - lymphocytes
What are 100% of duodenal ulcers due to?
H.pylori
What cancer can occur in the small intestine? What is it due to?
Enteropathy associated T cell lymphoma (EATL), due to untreated coeliac leading to INCREASED EPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTES
How does gastric MALToma differ from EATL?
Gastric MALToma occurs in stomach and is due to B cells, caused by H.Pylori
EATL occurs in small intestine and is due to T cells, caused by untreateed coeliac
Type of tropical enteropathy that causes malabsorpiton and jejunitis
Tropical sprue
Histological findings of coeliac
Crypt hyperplasia, villous atrophy and increased epithelial lymphocytes
First test to do before checking for antibodies in coeliac, why?
Serum IgA levels
Coeliac antibodies are IgA
Where to do biopsy in coeliac? Why?
Terminal duodenum as no brunners glands
Antibodies in coeliacl
If IgA normal: ANTI- TISSUE TRANSGUTAMINASE AND ANTI-ENDOMYSIAL
If IgA deficient: IgG anti-gliadin
Histological findings of crohns
- SKIP LESIONS WITH COBBLESTONE MUCOSA
- TRANSMURAL INFLAMMATION
- NON-CASEATING GRANULOMAS
How does smoking differ in crohn’s and UC?
Smoking makes crohn’s much worse, makes UC ebtter
Most common type of IBD
US
Histological finding of UC
- INFLAMMATION CONFINED TO MUCOSA
- SHALLOW ULCERS
Complications of UC
- Toxic megacolon
- Adenocarcinoma
What extra-intestinal disease is UC associated with?
PSC
Areas of regenerating mucosa in UC that project into lumen of th e bowel
Pseudopolyps
Treatment of C.Diff
Oral vanco
What causes diverticular disease? What does it lead to?
Low fibre diet causing high intraluminal pressure which causes outpouchings at weak points in the bowel walls (weak outpouchings are known as TAENIA COLI)
weak outpouchi9ngs in diverticular disease AKA
taenia coli
Where do most outpouchings occur in diverticular disease?
sigmoid
Difference in presentaiton of volvulus between children and elderly
NB: IN CHILDREN VOLVULUS AFFECTS SMALL BOWL, IN ELDERLY SIGMOID COLON
Most common cause of colitisd by infection
- VIRAL:
o CMV
SEEN IN IMMUNOSUPPRESSED
OFTEN IBD AS TREATMENT IS IMMUNOSUPPRESSED - BACTERIAL
o SALMONELLA - PROTOZOA
o ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA - FUNGAL
o CANDIDA
Most common type of colorectal cancer, most common location?
MAJORITY OF COLORECTAL CANCERS ARE ADENOCARCINOMAS MOST IN RECTUM
Area most affected by ischaemic colitis
ACUTE MESENTERIC ISCHAEMIC OCCURS IN WATERSHED ZONES SPLENIC FLEXURE AND RECTOSIGMOID
Tumour marker of colorectal cancer
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
Where are enterochromaffin cells msot commonly found? What do they lead to?
ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELLS MOST COMMONLY FOUND IN THE BOWEL, lead to carcinoid tumours
NOTE: therefore most commonly carcinoid tumours develop from the bowel
Carcinoid syndrome triad
- BRONCHOCONSTRICTION
- FLUSHING
- DIARRHOEA
What is carcinoid syndrome caused by ?
BY EXCESS OF SERETONION (5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE (5-HT))
Diagnostic test for carcinid syndrome
24 HOUR URINE 5-HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID (5-HIAA)
Treatment of carcinoid sydnrome
OCTREOTIDE SOMATOSTATIN ANALOGUE
Polyp factors that demonstrate a high likelihood of transformation to cancer include:
- Size of polyps
- Quantity of polyps
- Proportion of villous component (villous more so than tubular)
o TUBULAR
o TUBULOVILLOUS
o VILLOUS MOST LIKELY TO BECOME CANCER - Dysplasia
Villous or tubular, which ore likely to lead to colorectal cancer?
villous
Inheritance of familial adenomatous polyposis? Where is mutation? Presents with?
- AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT
- APC TUMOUR GENE (on chromosome 5q21)
- HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF POLYPS
Gardner syndrome
FAP WITH EXTRA-INTESTINAL MANIFESTIONS WHICH INCLUDE OSTEOMAS AND DESMOID TUMOURS (BENIGN BONE TUMOURS)
Turcot syndrome
FAP WITH BRAIN TUMOURS
Most commonc cause of hereditary colorectal cancer
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), AKA lynch syndrome
Inheritance of Lynch syndrome? Where is mutation? Presents with?
- AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT
- VERY FEW POLYPS HIGHER CHANCE OF PROGRESSION TO CANCERS
- DNA REPAIR GENES ERROS
Differences between FAP and HNPCC
- BOTH AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT
- FAP
o HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF POLYPS
o RECTOSIGMOID TUMOURS - HNPCC
o HANDFUL OF POLYPS
o PROXIMAL TO SPLENIC FLEXURE
What other cancers are Lynch ssyndfrome associated with?
ENDOMETRIAL (next most common after colorectal)
Ovarian
small bowel
gastric
Portal triad consists of
Portal vein (posterolateral)
Hepatic artery (medial)
Bile ducts (lateral)
Zones of liver
- Zone 1 closest to portal triad (periportal triad) most oxygenated
o ZONE AFFECTED FIRST BY TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND VIRAL HEPATITIS - Zone 2 mid zone
- Zone 3 perivenular hepatocytes (most mature and metabolically active)
o MOST SUSCPETIBLE ZONE TO ISCHAEMIC AS NEAREST TO THE HEPATIC VEIN WHICH IS LEAST OXYGENATED
Which zone in liver is affected first by toxic substances and viral hepatitis?
- Zone 1 closest to portal triad (periportal triad) most oxygenated
o ZONE AFFECTED FIRST BY TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND VIRAL HEPATITIS
Which zone in liver is most suspceptible zone to ischaemic? why?
- Zone 3 perivenular hepatocytes (most mature and metabolically active)
o MOST SUSCPETIBLE ZONE TO ISCHAEMIA AND METABOLIC TOXINS AS NEAREST TO THE HEPATIC VEIN WHICH IS LEAST OXYGENATED
liver macropahge
Kuppfer cell
What test determines the proportion of conjugated vs unconjuated bilirubin? How does it work?
- VAN DER BERGH
o DIRECT REACTION MEASURES CONJUGATED
o INDIRECT MEASURES UNCONJUGATED
What is itching in liver disease caused by? What type of liver disease causes it?
ITCHING IN LIVER DISEASE IS CAUSED BY UROBILINOGEN AND STERCOBILINOGEN
IN POST-HEPATIC LIVER DISEASE
Findings in portal hypertension
- DISTENDED VEINS
- ASCITES
- SPLENOMEGALY MOST COMMON FINDING DUE TO EXTRAHEPATIC SHUNTING
Most common finding in portal hypertension
Portal hypertension causes splenomegaly, NOT hepatomegaly hepatomegaly may be seen as a result of hepatitis NOT portal HTN
Histology of acute hepatitis
spotty necrosis concentrated around the portal triad
NB: small foci of inflammation and necrosis with inflammatory infiltrates
What viruses can cause acute hepatitis?
HEPATITIS A AND E MORE LIKELY TO CAUSE ACUTE HEPATITIS
What viruses CANNOT cause chronic hepatitis?
Hep A and E
Which viruses cause chronic hepatitis/
- VIRAL (B,C,D)
Histopathology of chronic hepatitis
- INTERFACE HEPATITIS PIECEMEAL NECROSIS CAN’T SEE BORDER BETWEEN PORTAL TRACT AND PARENCHYMA DUE TO INFLAM
- BRIDGING FIBROSIS FROM PORTAL VEIN TO CENTRAL VEIN THIS IS A CRITICAL STAGE IN HEPATITIS TO CIRRHOSIS INTERFACE
Summary table of types Hep B antigens
Causes of micronodular cirrhosis
- MICRONODULAR <3MM
o CAUSES
ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS
How is cirrhosis classified ?
size of regenerating nodules
- MICRONODULAR <3MM
- MACRONODULAR >3MM
What is A1AT deficiency? What can it caues? Histopathological features?
A1AT DEFICIENCY
* Caused by a failure to secrete it
* CAN CAUSE HEPATITS AND PNEUMONITIS (COPD)
* PERIPORTAL RED HYALINE GLOBULES USING PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN
Most common benign liver lesion
hemangioma
Association of hepatic adeoma
OCP
Pathophys of cirrhosis, difference between intra and extrahepatic shunting
INTRAHEPATIC SHUNTING WHEN BLOOD GOES THROUGH LIVER BUT DOES NOT CONTACT HEPATOCYTES NOT FILTERED
EXTRAHEPATIC SHUNTING WHEN BLOOD BACKLOGS INTO SITES OF PORTOSYTEMIC ANASTOMSES caused by portal HTN
Histology of alcoholic hepatitis
- HEPATOCYTE BALLOONING AND NECROSIS
- MALLORY DENK BODIES (FILAMENTS OF COLLAGEN) STAIN BLUE - TRICHOME
- PERICELLULAR FIBROSIS
NOTE: Mainly seen in zone 3
Histology of hepatic steatosis
fat droplets in hepatocytes
REVERSIBLE
Histology of alcoholic cirrhosis
micronodular cirrhosis
Histtology of NAFLD/NASH, what is it similar to?
ON HISTOLOGY: SIMILAR TO ALCOHOL HEPATITIS
- HEPATOCYTE BALLOONING AND NECROSIS
- MALLORY DENK BODIES (FILAMENTS OF COLLAGEN) STAIN BLUE - TRICHOME
What is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in the west?
NAFLD/NASH
Who is PBC more common in? Blood findings? Abs? US? Histology?
More common in females
Blood findings:
- RAISED ALP
- RAISED CHOLESEROL
GET RAISED ANTI-MITOCHONDRIAL ANTIBODIES IN PBC
ON ULTRASOUND, NO BILE DUCT DILATATION IS SEEN
ON HISTOLOGY, SEE BILE DUCT LOSS WITH GRANULOMAS
Who is PSC more common in? Blood findings? Abs? US? On ERCP? Histology?
More common in males
Inflam and obliterative fibrosis of BOTH intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts
MAIN ASSOCIATION IS WITH UC
Blood findings:
- HIGH ALP
GET RAISED P-ANCA IN PSC
ON ULTRASOUND, SEE BILE DUCT DILATATION (DON’T GET THIS IN PBC)
ON ERCP BEADING OF BILE DUCTS ‘BEAD ON STRINGS’
ON HISTOLOGY ONION SKINNING FIBROSIS ONCENTRIC FIBROSIS
Main association of PSC
UC
PSC is a major risk factor for
cholangiocarcinoma
Types of AIH and their respective antibodies
- TYPE 1 ANTI-SMA, ANA
- TYPE 2 ANTI-LKM (LIVER, KIDNEY, MICROSOMAL)
Inheritance of haemochromatosis? Gene affected? Stain used?
AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE
HFE GENE ON CHROMOSOME 6 AFFECTED
STAIN USED IS PRUSSIAN BLUE
Complications of haemochromatosis
haemochromatosis (HaemoChromatosis Can Cause Deposits Anywhere)
o Hypogonadism
o Cancer (hepatocellular)
o Cirrhosis
o Cardiomyopathy
o Diabetes mellitus
o Arthropathy
Inheritance of WIlsons? Gene affected? Blood finding? Stain done? Management?
AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE
THE ATP7B GENE ON CHROMOSOME 13 IS AFFECTED
SEE LOW CAERUPLASMIN AND COPPER ON BLOODS
RHODANINE IS THE STAIN DONE FOR COPPER
NB: Treated with Zinc and Trientine (copper chelating agent)
Presentation of wilsons
Liver cirrhosis that presents in kids
Neuro signs
Kaiser Fleischer rings
Most common liver malignancy
Secondary mets from GI TRACT, BREAST OR LUNG
Tumour marker of hepatocellular carcinoma
AFP
causes of hepatic granulomas
PBC, drugs, TB, sarcoid
Most common tyype of gallstone
Cholesterol - radiolucent
Different from pigment stones which are radioopaque
Histology of chronic cholecystitis
- DIVERTICULA OUTPOUCHING FROM GALLBLADDER – ROKITANSKY-ASCHKOFF SINUSES
Most common cause of chronic cholecystitis and gallbladder cancer
gallstones
Most common type of gallbladder cancer
adenocarcinomas
RFs for gallsotones
Fair, fat, femal,e fertile, forty
Most common cause of acute pancreatitis, second most common/
Gallstones, Ethanol
Causes of acute pancreatitis
THINK: I GET SMASHED
- IDIOPATHIC
- GALLSTONES - MOST COMMON
- ETHANOL – 2ND MOST COMMON
- TRAUMA
- STEROIDS
- MUMPS
- AID
- SCORPION STING
- HYPERCALCAEMIA
- HYPERLIPIDEMIA
- ERCP
- DRUGS THIAZIDES
Pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis
Positive feedback of enzyme activation causing acinar necrosis causing further enzyme release and activation
Damage ranges from stromal oedema to haemorrhagic necrosis
Lipase release + pancreas tissue necrosis = saponification
Complications of acute pancreatitsi
- Pseudocyst
- Abscess
- Shock
- Chronic pancreatitis
Most common cause of chronic pancreatitis
Alcohol
Genetic conditions that can cause chronic pancreatitsi
Haemochromatosis
CF
Histology of chronic pancreatitsi
- PARENCHYMAL FIBROSIS WITH LOSS OF PARENCHYMA
- DUCT STRICTURE WITH CALCIFIED STONES
- LOSE ACINAR CELLS FIRST
What antibodies seen in AI pancreatitis
IGG4 POSITIVE PLASMA CELLS
Histology of pancreatic carcinomas
- Adenocarcinomas with mucin producing glands set in desmoplastic stroma
- Gritty and grey macroscopically
Most common type of pancreatic cancer
Ductal adenocarcinoma
Most common secretory pancreatic tumour
insulinomat
most common site of pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Head of the pancreas
What is trousseau syndrome? What is it seen in?
OFTEN GET TROUSSEAU SYNDROME IN PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS EARLY SIGN ALSO SEEN IN GASTRIC AND LUNG
Where are neurodencorine tumours found?
FOUND IN TAIL OF PANCREAS, UNLIKE ADENOCARCINOMAS FOUND IN HEAD
How does insuloma present?
hypoglycaemic attacks
How does gastrinoma present?
WITH ZOLLINGER ELLISON SYNDROME HIGH ACID OUTPUT RECURRENT ULCERATION OF STOMACH TYPICALLY FOUND IN PANCREAS OR DUODENUM
Triad of Zollinger Ellison syndrome
(1) gastric acid hypersecretion, sustained by (2) fasting serum hypergastrinemia causing (3) peptic ulcer disease and diarrhea
How does VIPoma present?
DIARRHOEA VIP IS VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE
How does glucagonoma present?
NECROLYTIC MIGRATING ERYTHEMA
Main stain for NE tumours? Alternatives?
MAIN STAIN FOR NE TUMOURS IS CHROMOGRANIN
CAN ALSO DO SYNAPTOPHYSIN. CD56 AND INDIVIDUAL HORMOMES (E.G. GASTRIN, INSULIN)
What are neurodenocrine tumours associated with?
MEN1
Triad of nephrotic syndrome
Peripheral oedema
proteinuria
low serum albumin
THINK: PPL
Important protein lost in nephrotic syndrome
Antithrombin III
What are all nephrotic syndromes treated with?
Steroids
Causes and histology of nephrotic syndrome
o MINIMAL CHANGE DISEASE
HISTOLOGY EFFACEMENT OF PODOCYTE FOOT PROCESSES
o FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS (FSGS)
HISTOLOGY GLOMERULI WHICH ARE SCARRED
o MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
HISTOLOGY SUBEPITHELIAL DEPOSITION OF IMMUN DEPOSITS
What is seen in the urine of nephrotic syndrome?
Fatty casts
Most common cause of nephropathy in kids, finding on electron microscopy? Management?
Minimal change disease, loss of foot processes, responds very well to steroids