peds- UT Flashcards
GI tact sonographic technique?
- high frequency linear probe
- grades compression
Normal gastric wall thickeness?
- 5- 3.5mm
- mucosa and muscle layer combined
abnormal gastric (stomach) wall thickening?
5-15mm
gastric wall thickening can be caused by? (3)
- Gastritis
- Gastric Ulcer
- Lymphoid hyperplasia
Normal neonatal stomach filled with fluid- layers?
- Hyperechoic submucosa
- Hypoechoic muscle layer
What is Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis?
- what is it?
- who does it affect?
- when does it present?
- cause?
- Abnormal thickening of the antropyloric region of the stomach
- Mostly affects first-born male infants 2-10 weeks of age
- most patients present at 1-2 months of age
- Cause - idiopathic
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis clinical presentation?
- Dehydration
- Frequent episodes of projectile nonbilious vomiting
- Failure to thrive
- Thickening palpated as the “olive-shaped” epigastric mass
HPS what we can visualize? (main 3)
- pyloric muscle
- lack of passage of fluid through the pylorus
- stomach often filled with water even when fasting
TRV and SAG plane HPS?
TRV- Long axis of pylorus
SAG- trv axis of pylorus
if pylorus is not visualized what should you do?
- give child water to display gastric lumen
how does the mass present in HPS?
- Donut sign
- anechoic/hypoechoic muscle mass with a central echogenic lumen
HPS is diagnosed when? (3)
- AP of pyloric diameter exceeds 1.5cm
- The length of the antrum to the distal end of the channel exceeds 1.8cm
- Muscle thickness exceeds 4mm
The stomach wall in children with pyloric stenosis is?
always normal
HPS treatment?
pyloromyotomy
Small bowel abnormalities? (3)
- bowel obstruction
- meconium ileus
- midgut malrotation
small bowel obstruction intrinsic causes?
- Duodenal Atresia (assoc. w. Trisomy 21)
- Duodenal Stenosis
- Duodenal Web
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
small bowel obstruction extrinsic causes?
Malrotation
Choledochal Cyst
Duodenal duplication cyst
Annular Pancreas
small bowel obstruction presents with?
- bilious vomiting
- abdo distention
- failure to pass meconium