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Pain out of proportion to the physical
Ischemia
Peritonitis gets? Surgery
Exploratory laparoscopy
Patient comes in with Rebound tenderness and guarding ?
Peritonitis
Image the RUQ with ?
Ultrasound
Colicky abdominal pain?
Obstruction
Image the RLQ with ?
CT SCAN
Biopsy of UC shows ?
Superficial inflammation with crypt abscesses
Treatment for Fistula
LIFT= Fistulotomy
Treatment for anal fissures
Pastes or Creams for pain and muscle tone relaxation (nitroglycerin, calcium channel blocker)
Bright red blood on toilet paper after bowel movement- most common dx?
Hemorrhoids
Colonoscopy of US shows?
Continuous inflammation from rectum through colon
Treatment for anal cancer
Nigro protocol
That is ; preoperative use of chemotherapy with 5 -fluorouracil and mitomycin and medical radiation for SSC of the anal canal
Adenocarcinoma should be tx surgically
Screening for Anal cancer ?
A preventive practice, especially in HIV positive men, anal pap
Ulcerative colitis, 8 years from dx
Colonoscopy annually, prophylactic colectomy
Treatment for familial adenomatous polyposis?
Prophylactic colectomy
1000s of polyps by 20 ? Dx
Familial adenomatous polyposis
Young AA women with sickle cell disease; what type of stones will she have?
Pigmented stones
Risk factors for gallstones
Fat, female, fertile, forty
USS findings for choledocolithiasis
Dilated ducts
What do you do for cholangitis
ERCP
Treatment for choledocolithiasis
ERCP and Sphincterotomy
Treat cholangitis with (abx)
Metronidazole + ciprofloxacin
Pancreatitis: what test do you get
Ultrasound - rule out gallstones as the cause
Best dx test for cholecystitis
HIDA SCAN (AKA nuclear scan )
Dx of cholecystitis on USS
Pericholecystic fluid, thickened gallbladder wall, gallstone
Dx acute pancreatitis by?
Elevated lipase
Antibiotic used in necrotizing pancreatitis
Meropenem
Most common causes (2) of pancreatitis?
Gallstones and alcohol
Pancreatic Pseudocyst: when do you operate ?
6 weeks or 6cm
Tx of chronic pancreatitis
Opiates
Acute pancreatitis weeks ago, now early satiety ? And how would u confirm
Pancreatic pseudo cyst . CT scan
In order , the dx of Boerhaave’s?
Gastrografin swallow, Barium Swallow, EGD
First dx step in GERD
Empiric PPI
Best test in working up esophageal cancer
EGD with biopsy
Bird’s beak esophagus?
Achalasia
Esophageal cancer at the top of esophagus
Squamous cell carcinoma
Best tx for achalasia
Myotomy
1st step in working up esophageal cancer
Barium swallow
Self limiting upper GI bleed
Mallory Weiss tear
Esophageal cancer at the bottom of the esophagus
Adenocarcinoma
You dx a stricture of the biliary tree. What do you do ?
Stent it
How do you dx pancreatic cancer
Endoscopic ultrasound with biopsy
How do you dx primary sclerosing cholangitis?
MRCP
You dx primary sclerosing cholangitis with strictures. What do you do?
Ursodeoxycholic acid to transplant