Upper GI Tract 2 Flashcards
How do oesophageal perforations present?
- Pain 95 %
- Fever 80 %
- Dysphagia 70 %
- Emphysema 35 %
What imaging do you fo for oesophageal perforations?
- CXR
- CT
- Swallow (gastrograffin)
- OGD
What is the initial management of oesophageal perforations?
- NBM
- IV fluids
- Broad spectrum A/Bs & Antifungals
- ITU/HDU level care
- Bloods (including G&S)
- Tertiary referral centre
- Surgical emergency
- 2x ↑mortality if 24h delay in
diagnosis
How do you determine management with questions in an oesophageal perforation?
- Is the perforation transmural or intramural?
- Where is it & on which side?
- How big?
- Is leak well defined or diffuse?
When is operative management of an oesophageal perforation not default?
- Minimal contamination
- Contained
- Unfit
What is the conservative management of an oesophageal perforation?
covered metal stent
What sort of repair is optimal?
- Primary but if not:
1. +/- Vascularised pedicle flap 2. +/- Gastric fundus buttressing (e.g. Dor)
3. Drains ++
What is a definitive solution?
- Oesophagectomy - definitive solution
2. With reconstruction or oesophagostomy & delayed reconstruction
What state is LOS usually in?
closed as barrier against reflux of harmful gastric juice (pepsin & HCl)
What is LOS pressure increased by?
- Acetylcholine
- Alpha-adrenergic agonists
- Hormones
- protein rich food
- histamine
- high intra-abdominal pressure
- PGF2alpha etc
- Causes Increased pressure in esophageal sphincter
- Inhibits reflux
What is LOS pressure decreased by?
- VIP
- Beta-adrenergic agonists
- Hormones
- Dopamine
- NO
- PGI2 and PGE2
- Chocolate
- Acid gastric juice
- Fat
- Smoking
- Causes decreased pressure in oesophageal sphincter
- Promotes reflux
Is sporadic reflux normal?
Sporadic reflux is normal
• pressure on full stomach
• swallowing
• transient sphincter opening
What are the 3 mechanisms protect following reflux?
- Volume clearance - oesophageal peristalsis reflex
- pH clearance - saliva
- Epithelium - barrier properties
What happens in GORD?
failure of protective mechanisms
What can happen in GORD?
- Decrease sphincter pressure
- Transient sphincter opening (air, CO2)
- Abnormal peristalsis (decreased volume clearance)
- Decreased saliva production (in sleep, xerostomia)
- Decreased buffering capacity of saliva (e.g. through smoking)
- Decreases pH clearance - Hiatus hernia
- Defective mucosal protective mechanism (e.g. alcohol)
What do these aspects of GORD lead to?
- reflux esophagitis
- epithelial metaplasia
- carcinoma
What is volume clearance?
rapid return of reflux volume by oesophageal peristalsis reflex
What is pH clearance?
residual gastric juice left behind – pH rises step by step with swallowed saliva buffers residual rfux volume
What is a sliding hiatus hernia?
- Variable association with GORD
- Most pts with severe stages of GORD have a hernia
- But most GORD pts don’t have a hernia & many with a hernia don’t have GORD
What is another type of hernia?
- Rolling/paraoesophageal hiatus hernia
- gastrooesophagel junction in place
- Emergency surgery
Why do you do OGD?
•To exclude cancer
•Oesophagitis, peptic structure & Barretts oesophagus confirm ∆
What images do you do in GORD?
- OGD
- Oesophageal manometry
- 24hr oesophageal recording.