IBD Flashcards

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distinguishing features b/t UC and Crohn’s disease

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ulcerative colitis

  • crytabcesses, cryptitis = chronic inflammation
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differences in age and sex distrib in UC and Crohn’s

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more males have Crohn’s, similar age distrib (highest onset rate in 20s-30s)

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4
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genetic susceptibility - which has more, Crohn’s or UC?

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Crohn’s! much higher twin concordance

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5
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environmental risk factors for crohn’s and UC

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​smoking: protective in UC, risk in Crohn’s

appendectomy protective for UC

high sanitation level in childhood - risk for CD

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UC - distribution of disease

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  • colon only
  • continuous distribution
  • rectal involvement
  • mucosal inflammation
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sx of UC

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  • rectal bleeding (hematochezia)
  • diarrhea
  • abdominal pain
  • tenesmus and urgency
  • systemic sx: fever, night sweats
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Crohn’s: nodulatiry, ulceration, exudate, luminal narrowing

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complications of UC

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  • hemorrhage
  • toxic megacolon
  • perforation
  • colon cancer
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lympocytic colitis

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  • a type of microscopic colitis
  • watery diarrhea
  • occurs in middle age adults, M =F
  • normal endoscopy, but inflammation on microscopic level
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collagenous colitis

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type of microscopic colitis

  • watery diarrhea but no bleeding
  • predominantly older women
  • normal endoscopy but inflammation on microscopic level
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Crohn’s disease distribution and distinguishing feature

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  • transmural inflammation
  • granulomas
  • strictures
  • skip lesions
  • can have small bowel involvement
  • rectal sparing
  • perineal disease
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13
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Crohn’s

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14
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non-caseating granuloma in Crohn’s

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15
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Crohn’s clinical patterns

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  • inflammation: pain, tenderness, diarrhea, low-grade fever, weight loss
  • confined perforation: mimics appendicitis (ileum), mimics diverticulitis (sigmoid colon)
  • obstruction: cramps, distension, borborygmi, vomiting
  • fistulization: to anywhere
  • perineal complications
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16
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childhood presentations of IBD

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  • fever
  • anemia
  • arthritis
  • failure of growth and development
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apthous stomatitis - assoc w/ IBD

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skin conditions assoc w/ IBD

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  • erythema nodosum: more w/ Crohn’s
  • pyoderma gangrenosum: more w/ UC
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extraintestinal manifestations of IBD

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  • aphthous stomatitis
  • episcleritis and uveitis
  • arthritis
  • vascular complications
  • skin: e. nodosum, p. gangrenosum
  • hepatobiliary: primary sclerosing cholangitis
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primary sclerosiing cholangitis - assoc w/ IBD

21
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ddx IBD vs IBS

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22
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crypt abcesses in ACUTE (INFECTIOUS) COLITIS

*architecture intact (unlike UC)

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Cryptitis

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crypt abscess

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thumbprinting - sign of UC intestinal complication of dissection through wall of colon –> serositis and paralytic ileus