lecture 1 Flashcards
Overview of General Pathology and class
What do we need to know from the Pathology of esophagus and stomach lecture?
- Clinical features and complications of upper GI
- Diagnostic methods, pathogenisis and pathology teatement and prognosis
- integration of cell reaction, neoplasia and inflammation
What are the manifestation of Upper GI disease?
- Nausea and vomitting (N&A)
- Reflux and coughing
- dysphagia
- odynophagia which is pain swallowing
- Chest pain, heartburn and abdominal pain
What are the complications of upper GI disease?
- Bleeding
- Hematmesis (vomitting blood), Coffee ground emesis( vomitting looks like coffee grounds) and Melena (Shitting blood)
- Obstruction
- Obstruction leads to pain, nausea and vomitting
- Perforation which means a whole is made where things pass through
- This lead to peritonitis and fever and abdominal tenderness
What are the diagnositic methods of upper GI problems?
Endoscopy and Occult blood test
What does the normal esophegeal mucosa consist of?
Epithelium of non keratinized strartified squamous mucosa.
What causes the pathology of esophagus?
- Obstuction due to mechanica (atresia and stenosis) or functional such as dsymotility and achalasia (cant push food down to stomach)
- Vascular disease due to hypertension
- Varices is basically when the veins are enlarged around the esophagus due to hypertension
- Esophagitis:
- Chemical
- Infections due to Candida
- Candida
- CMV and HSV
- Reflux disease (Barret and GERD)
- Eosinophillic esophagitis
- Esophegeal tumors
- Adenocarcinoma
- squamous cell carcinmoma
What are the causes, clinical features and pathology of Chemical esophagitis? and how is it managed?
- Causes: alcohol, corrosive acides, hot fluids and smoking ans pills
- clinical features odynphagia, hemorrage and perforation
- pathology:
- ulceration and acute inflammation
- management
- self limited, endoscopy or surgry
- Infectious Esophagitis:
- What are the causes, Clinical features and Patholgoy
- Causes
- Herpes, CMV and fungal
- Clinical:
- Immunosuppressed
- Desquamative skin disease
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Odynophagia and dysphagia
What is reflux esophagitis?
Reflux of gastric content into the lower third of esophagus, most common gastric ailness. The causes is due to dysfunction of the lower esophgeal sphincter. cuases backflow of stomach juices . Most common in people over 40, could lead to tooth enamel loss and aspiration pneumonia.
TREATMENT IS PROTON PUMP inhibitor
What are the pathology of reflux esophagitis?
- Hyperemia that then turns into an ulcer.
- This is due to basal zone hyperplasa,2)% increase in total thickness.
- Elongation of papillae to upper third of epithelium and youll see increase of eosinophils, neutrophils and lymphocytes
- This is due to basal zone hyperplasa,2)% increase in total thickness.
What is Bareet Esophagus?
- Occur in 10% of individuals with sympotmatic GERD.
- Occurs in white males 40-60
- Barret disease could lead to dysplasia and Neoplasm. Adenocarcinoma
- If dysplasia occurs they have to be treated
The pathology: Characterised by Goblet cell metaplasia
BARRET IS an old dude (40-60) who likes to drink (Goblet Cells) and has to watch out for cancer
How can you identify Barret disease?
- Endosocpy;
- Pathces of red velvet mucosa extending upward from Gastropespjheal junction
- Intestinal mucosa metaplastic and squamous mucosa wand columnar.
- So the columnar goblet metaplastic combines with the squamous mucosa in the intestines
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- So the columnar goblet metaplastic combines with the squamous mucosa in the intestines
What is eosiphinillic esophagitis?
- Chronic immunologically (Eosinophils) mediated disorder
- Atopia (not in contact with allergen but causes hypersensitivity.
Leads to food impaction and gerd Like symptoms
Patients try proton inhibitors but usually refractory (symptoms unmanageable)
Signs: crcumferential rings and large number of eosinophills.
What are the two most common esophegeal tumors?
Adenocarinmoa and squamous cell carcinoma
What re risk factors and population of esoph. adenocarcinoma? What are the clinical features?
Whats the prognosis?
Increase incidence since the 70s, affects white males and more common in men than women (7x).
- Smoking and alcohol abuse, are risk factors, and barret or esophagitis and nitrites in diet.
Clinical features?
- Usually occurs in distal third of esophagus
- insidious onset
- Difficulty swallowing and vomitting, bleading and progressive weight loss
Prognosis:
5 years only 25% survives