Jaundic And Biliary Disorders CIS Flashcards
Dublin Johnson syndrome
You get the really black liver
- normal AST/ALT and CBC
- galbladder wall thickening
What will predispose a pregnant lady who is having cholecystitis to recurrence of symptoms?
Taking oral contraceptives
Which blood will give you hyperbilirubinemia?
Sickle cell anemia
-more destruction of RBC’s
Faulty excretion of bilirubin
Dublin Johnson
Impaired bilirubin storage
Gilbert’s
-the intense one is criggler Najjar
Charcot’s triad
For ascending cholangitis
- jaundice
- fever
- RUQ pain
Which one is a painless jaundice… They show up and they’re yellow and they don’t know why?
Pancreatic cancer!
“Shock liver”
Ischemic hepatitis
-they will be REALLY sick
Episodic RUQ pain
Think choledocalithiasis
-diabetes is a risk factor for gallstone production
If you see a porcelain gallbladder, what should we worry about
Fucking cancer!
What is emphysematous gallbladder
Air around the gallbladder
- in uncontrolled diabetics
- bacterial infection with Th gas-forming organism: C. Perfringes
Where do stones get lodged when it hurts like hell in the gallbladder?
The cystic duct!
In alcoholic pancreatitis, which is higher, AST or ALT?
AST
-that’s why it’s the weird one
What is primary sclerosing cholangitis associated with?
Ulcerative colitis
-remember the pANCA
In choledocalithiasis, what pancreatic enzyme is elevated?
Lipase
-stone in the common bile duct…. Backs EVERYTHING up
What is ERCP
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatograhy
What is MRCP
Magnetic retrograde cholangiopancreatograhy
Where will we have a somatic dyfunction in gallbladder disease
T5-7