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Lange - Upper GI Flashcards

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Patient with combination of acute abdomen with upright CXR showing free air under diaphragm – next step in diagnosis?

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Take to OR for exploration (no other test needed)

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Highly selective vagotomy? Difference from other vagotomies?

Effect on complication rate? Recurrence rate?

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Nerve supply to the pylorus left intact – no drainage procedure is necessary

Lower complication rate but higher recurrence rate

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Treatment for perforation?

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If benign clinical presentation or improving, consider antibiotics with nasogastric decompression (nonsurgical)

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Necessary procedure following truncal vagotomy?

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pyloroplasty (Drainage procedure)

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Typical complications after vagotomy?

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  1. Diarrhea
  2. Delayed gastric emptying
  3. Dumping syndrome
  4. Intussusception
  5. Afferent Loop syndrome
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Dumping syndrome? Types?

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Early dumping – occurs within 30 minutes, caused by rapid gastric emptying of hyperosmolar load to small bowel

Late dumping – 1-3 hours after eating with vasomotor symptoms (related to excess release of insulin in response to postprandial glucose rise)

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When to surgically treat prolapse of gastric mucosa into duodenum?

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Obstructive symptoms (vomiting)

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Most common blood type in patients with duodenal ulcer disease?

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Group O

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Post gastrectomy – nutrient absorption that is most affected?

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Iron – acid needed to release ferric iron from food

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Billroth I?

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Partial gastrectomy with gastroduodenal anastomosis

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Treatment of gastric ulcer vs duodenal ulcer?

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  1. Biopsy for malignancy
  2. Biliroth I (partial gastrectomy with gastroduodenal anastomosis)
  3. Vagotomy – gastric ulcers not associated with acid hypersecretion
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Can provoke increase in gastrin levels in patient with ZES by giving?

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Calcium or secretin

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Complication of chronic duodenal ulcer?

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Pyloric obstruction due to scarring and stenosis of duodenum

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Gastrin produced where?

Stimulates?

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Antrum and small intestine.

Stimulates parietal cells to secrete acid; stimulates chief cells to secrete pepsinogen

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Treatment for:

  1. Early gastric cancer
  2. Antral gastric cancer
  3. GIST
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  1. Gastric resection or endoscopic resection

2. Distal subtotal gastrectomy with the lymph node dissection and chemoradiation

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GISTs do not respond to?

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Radiation or chemotherapy

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Location of:

  1. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis?
  2. Menetrier’ disease?
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gastric antrum

proximal stomach

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Incisura?

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Where body of the stomach ends and antrum begins

18
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Treatment of choice for gastric lymphoma?

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Chemotherapy and radiation (surgery)

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Characteristics sign of a GIST on barium studies?

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Donut sign

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Type of polyp that is unlikely to become carcinoma? Other type of polyp? Location?

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Hyperplastic

Adenomatous – Antrum

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Gastric volvulus associated with?

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Paraesophageal hiatal hernia

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Symptoms of an acute gastric distention? Best treatment?

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Vasovagal reaction ; Nasogastric decompression

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Autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis associated with?

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hypochlorhydria parietal cell antibodies and high gastrin

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Patient gets truncal vagotomy – also needs? Types?

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Drainage procedure

Pyloroplasty, gastrojejunostomy, antrectomy

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Difference in management of older patient with peptic ulcer bleeding? Why?

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Surgery indicated earlier stage – #vessels atherosclerotic and less likely to stop bleeding spontaneously 
#diminished perfusion less well-tolerated

Oversew gastroduodenal artery, vagotomy, drainage

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Patient presents with RUQ pain. Sonogram cannot distinguish?

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Acute cholecystitis

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Treatment for GIST?

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Resection of mass or Gleevec

28
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Pernicious anemia associated with?

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Anchlorhydra and gastric carcinoma

29
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Between what muscles does a Zenker. Diverticulum emerge?

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Cricopharyngeus and inferior constrictor muscle

Killian’s triangle

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Surgical treatment for symptomatic pharyngeal esophageal diverticulum? Etiology ?

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Myomectomy (if asymptomatic, no treatment)

Failure of cricopharyngeus muscle to relax

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Epiphrenic diverticulum associated with? Symptoms? Treatment?

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Hiatal hernia, esophageal spasm, achalasia

Typically asymptomatic; no treatment unless symptomatic

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Plummer-Vinson syndrome?

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Esophageal web + atrophic oral mucosa + brittle nails + Fe deficiency anemia

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