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Infection and Inflammation of the Gut Flashcards

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What is Giradiasis?

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Chronic, waterborne Protozoal infection

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What are the symptoms of a Giardiasis infection?

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Diarrhoea
Malabsorption
Weight loss
Asymptomatic

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What is Giardiasis treated with?

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Metronidazole

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What subset of people are most likely to get a CMV infection?

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Immunosuppressed patients

  • organ transplant from seropositive donor associated with immunosuppressive therapy
  • bone marrow transplant
  • AIDS patients
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What are the clinical signs of CMV infection?

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Severe pain
Loss of weight
Weakness
Remitting fever
GI lesions
- erosive-ulcerous 
- ulceronecrotic
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What is Whipple’s disease?

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Infection of the GI tract by Tropheryma whipplei

Patients have lack of immunity to the organism

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What are the clinical signs of Whipple’s disease?

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Weight loss
Arthralgia
Diarrhoea
Abdominal pain

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How is Whipple’s disease diagnosed?

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On biopsy of the duodenum

- shows PAS positive macrophages

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What is tropical sprue?

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Post-infectious sprue
Malabsorption disease
Affects people living in or visiting the tropics

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What is the cause of tropical sprue?

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E.Coli

Haemophilus

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What is the pathophysiology of Tropical sprue?

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Malabsorption disease that presents within weeks of an enteric infection

  • flattening of villi
  • inflammation of the lining of the small intestine
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What is the treatment for tropical sprue?

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Long course of tetracycline

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Name the 6 intestinal diseases that can arise in an Entamoeba Histolytica infection.

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Asymptomatic intralumincal ameobiasis-pass cysts
Dysentery
Acute necrotising colitis with perforation
Toxic megacolon
Ameboma
Perianal ulceration with fistula formation

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Describe asymptomatic intraluminal ameobiasis-pass cysts.

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Can involve any part of the bowel
Small foci of necrosis that progress to ulcers
- flask-shaped ulcer with narrow neck and broad base
Infection is initiated by ingestion of faecally contaminated food or water
Can spread to the liver, thorax and brain

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Where can an amoeba infection spread?

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Metastasis can occur overwhelmingly to the lover
- can spread from there to the thorax or even the brain
Rectovesicular fistula and fistulous involvement of the skin have been reported

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What is pseudomembranous colitis and how is it diagnosed?

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Swelling/inflammation of the large intestine due to overgrowth of C.Diff bacteria.
Loss of cypts
Diagnosed by C.Diff toxin found in the stool

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What is the pathophysiology of pseudomembranous colitis?

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Often prior treatment with antibiotics (e.g. clindamycin) causes elimination of many gut commonesuals and overgrowth of toxin, producing C.Diff

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How is a mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of the colon diagnosed?

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Biopsies show granulomatous inflammation with confluent granulomas, usually with central caseous necrosis
- contains multi-nucleate giant cells
Ziehl-Neelsen stain, culture and PCR can also identify the bacteria

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What is the treatment of a mycobacterium tuberculosis infection?

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Multiple antibiotics
- Isoniazid.
- Rifampin 
- Ethambutol 
- Pyrazinamide
More aggressive treatment for multidrug resistant TB
Surgery if the granuloma is perforated or obstructing 
- fish mouth stricture
20
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Which parts of the colon is most commonly involved in colonic TB infections?

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Cecum in conjunction with the ileum

  • abundant lymphoid tissue
  • often occurs in the absence of active pulmonary disease
21
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How does the mycobacterium tuberculosis infection spread to the colon?

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Swallowed bacteria
Haematogenous spread
Direct extension from infected lymph nodes or uterine tubes

22
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What are the common clinical features of a colonic TB infection?

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Weight loss
Anorexia
Fever
Abdominal pain
Diarrhoea
Palpable mass
23
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Name some possible endoscopic findings in colonic TB.

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Strictures
Ulcers
Mucosal hypertrophy

24
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What is a schistosomiasis infection of the colon?

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A fluke that causes colitis or bowel obstruction

Associated with underdeveloped countries and living near a dam reservoir

25
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How can a schistosomiasis infection of the colon be diagnosed?

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Can be seen down the microscope on a biopsy sample

26
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What are the criteria for performing a duodenal biopsy in coeliac disease?

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Symptomatic patient with serological markers
Symptomatic, seronegative patients who are DQ2/8+ve
Asymptomatic others if they at risk of being seropositive
- T1DM
- 1st degree relative
- Down’s syndrome
While on a gluten-containing diet
Four biopsies taken irrespective of endoscopic appearances

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What are the features that support a diagnosis of coeliac disease?

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Coeliac-associated antibodies
HLA-DQ2 and/ or DQ8
Response to gluten exclusion
Histology

28
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What is the histopathology of coeliac disease?

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Villous atrophy
Crypt hyperplasia
Increased number of intra-epithelial lymphocytes
Increased number of plasma cells in the lamina propria
(more than 25 to 100 lymphocytes)

29
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Who should you offer serological testing for coeliac disease to?

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Persistent unexplained abdominal or GI symptoms
Faltering growth
Prolonged fatigue
Unexplained weight loss
Severe or persistent mouth ulcers
Unexplained iron, vitamin B12 or folate deficiency
T1DM at diagnosis
Autoimmune thyroid disease
IBS (in sdults)
First degree relatives with coealiac disease

30
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Name come clinicals signs of malabsorption.

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IDA
Steatorrhoea
- bulky, pale, greasy and offensive smell
Osteopenia/prosis
- increased risk of fracture
31
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Describe the pathology of acute appendicitis.

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Acute inflammation in mucosa followed by ulceration and transmural inflammation

32
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What are the complications of acute appendicitis?

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Transmural gangrene leading to perforation
Generalised peritonitis
Right iliac fossa pain
Chronic ‘grumbling appendix’

33
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What is diverticular disease?

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Mucosal out-pouchings through the muscle coat of the colon

34
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Which part of the colon does diverticular disease principally affect?

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Sigmoid

35
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Describe the pathophysiology of diverticular disease of the colon.

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Low roughage diet causes constipation and high sigmoid luminal pressure
- herniation of mucosa through weakness in the muscle coat of the sigmoid

36
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What are the complications associated with diverticulitis?

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May perforate
- abscess or faecal peritonitis
May fistulate into the bladder or bowel
May bleed
May obstruct the bowel
37
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What history would you expect from a person with microscopic colitis?

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Middle aged person
Profuse watery diarrhoea
- 10 motions per day
Colonoscopy normal
Histology abnormal
38
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Name and describe the two types of microscopic colitis.

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Collagenous colitis
- inflammatory bowel disease
- collagen deposition in tche lamina propria
Lymphocytic colitis
- more inflammation
- accumulation of lymphocytes in the epithelium and lamina propria

39
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What can cause microscopic colitis?

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Secondary to drug treatment

  • NSAIDs
  • antidepressants
  • PPIs
  • statins
40
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What is the treatment for microscopic colitis?

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Eliminate causative drug

Treat with 5-aminosalicylic acid or Budesonide

41
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What are the acute and chronic symptoms of ischaemic gut?

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Acute
- sudden onset abdominal pain
- blood in PR
Chronic
- abdominal angina: pain associated with eating
- weight loss
42
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Name some possible causes of ischaemic gut.

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Mesenteric artery or vein thrombosis
Mesenteric artery embolus 
Hypotension (watershed infarction)
Strangulation hernia
Volvulus - twisting gut
43
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Describe the pathology of ischaemic gut.

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Mucosal and transmural infarction
Coagulative necrosis
Gangrene
May require surgical resection

44
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What would you expect to see on endoscopy in an ischaemic bowel?

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Petechial haemorrhages
Oedematous and fragile mucosa
Segmental erythema
Scattered erosion
Longitudinal ulcerations
Sharply defined segment of involvement
45
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Name some complications of ischaemic gut?

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Intestinal gangrene in 1-4 days
Bacterial superinfection
Enterotoxin formation (pseudomembranes)
Stricture
Peforation can be fatal
Tachycardia 
Peritonism signs

GI/Liver (12 decks)

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