Large Intestine

Question 1

Is diverticular disease common?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Does diverticular disease always have symptoms?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

What kind of diet is diverticular disease related to?

Answer 3

Low fibre

Question 4

Who does ischaemia of large bowel tend to occur in?

Answer 4

elderly

Question 5

Is ischaemia of large bowel typically left or right sided?

Answer 5

left

Question 6

What can cause large bowel ischaemia?

Answer 6

CVS disease, vasculitis, emboli, AF, shock, atherosclerosis of mesenteric vessels

Question 7

What are the histopathological clues of large bowel ischaemia?

Answer 7

withering crypts, pink smudgy lamina propria, fewer chronic inflammatory cells

Question 8

What is the main symptom of antiobiotic induced pseudomembranous colitis?

Answer 8

massive diarrhoea

Question 9

How should antiobiotic induced pseudomembranous colitis be treated?

Answer 9

Flagy/Vancomycin

Question 10

What happens to suprepithelial collagen in collagenous colitis?

Answer 10

increases in thickness

Question 11

What is telangectasia, and what type of colitis is it a symptom of?

Answer 11

widened tiny blood vessels, radiation colitis

Question 12

What are bizarre in radiation colitis?

Answer 12

stromal cells and vessels

Question 13

What may radiation colitis be a complication of?

Answer 13

Immunosuppresion