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Why Might my Patient be Jaundiced? Flashcards

1
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What are 3 symptoms/ signs of jaundice?

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Yellowing of the sclera/ skin

Caused by an increase in the blood levels of bilirubin

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What is bilirubin

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A normal by-product of the break down of red blood cells

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3
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Where does the breakdown of red blood cells mainly occur?

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Spleen

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4
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What is bilirubin used to form and where?

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Bile in the liver

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What is the bilary tree and what does it do?

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It transports bile

It is a set of tubes connecting the liver to the 2nd part of the duodenum

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6
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What is the role of the gallbladder?

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Storage and concentration of bile

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7
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What is the main function of bile?

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Normal absorption of fats from the small intestine

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What does the pancreas do? and why is this necessary?

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It excretes digestive enzymes into the 2nd part of the duodenum.
Necessary for digestion of food

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9
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Where is the portal triad found?

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In the free edge of the lesser omentum

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10
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What does the portal triad consist of?

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Hepatic artery, Heaptic portal vein and the common bile duct

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What do the 3 tubes supply?

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Blood supply to and drainage to the liver

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12
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What else is found in the portal triad?

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Nerves and lymphatics

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13
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What is the first of the three midline branches of the abdominal aorta called?

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The celiac trunk

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The celiac trunk is retroperitoneal, define this

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Situated or occuring behind the peritoneum

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Where does the celiac trunk arise?

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T12

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16
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What organs do the celiac trunk supply

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All of the organs of the foregut

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17
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The celiac trunk trifurcates into what 3 branches?

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Splenic artery, hepatic artery and the left gastric artery

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18
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Describe the course of the splenic artery

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Very tortuous course

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19
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Where does the splenic artery run?

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Along the superior border of the pancreas

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20
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What type of organ is the spleen?

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Intraperitoneal organ within the hypochondrium

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What is the main function of the spleen?

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Break down red blood cells to produce bilirubin

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22
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What ribs protect the spleen?

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Ribs 9-11

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Where does the blood supply to the stomach come from?

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RIght and left gastric arteries and the right and left gastro-omental arteries

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Where do the gastric arteries run?

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Along the lesser curvature

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25
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Where do the gastro-omental arteries run?

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Along the greater curvature

26
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What would happen if one of the blood supplies was cut off?

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Blood would still be delivered from the other supply

27
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Where does the blood supplying the liver come from?

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Hepatic Artery

28
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How much blood arrives from the hepatic artery?

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20-25%

29
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What other vessel delivers the rest of the blood to the liver?

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Hepatic Portal Vein

30
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What type of blood does the hepatic portal vein carry

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Nutrient rich, oxygen poor blood

31
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Where does the liver lie?

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Upper right quadrant

32
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What is the main function of the liver

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Major metabolic organ which converts bilirubin to bile

33
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What ribs protect the liver?

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Ribs 7-11

34
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What are the 4 anatomical segments of the liver?

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Right and Left lobes, Caudate lobe and Quadrate lobe

35
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How many functional segments does the liver have?

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8

36
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What does each segment possess?

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Its own portal triad

37
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How many veins drain blood from the liver?

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3 Hepatic Veins

38
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A rise in Central Venous Pressure would result in what?

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Hepatomegaly as the liver would engorge in blood and the change in pressure is directly transmitted to the liver

39
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What is the function of the sinusoids?

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To clean the blood (nutrients are removed)

40
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What is being produced in the hepatocytes?

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Bile

41
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Name the 2 clinically important areas of the peritoneal cavitiy related to the liver

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Hepatorenal recess (Morrison's Pouch
Subphrenic recess
42
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Where are the recesses of the liver located?

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Within the greater sac

43
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What could a collection of puss in the recess lead to?

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Abscess formation

44
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Where does the hepatic portal vein act?

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Drains blood from the foregut, midgut and hindgut to the liver for first pass metabolism (cleaning)

45
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What does the inferior mesenteric vein drain blod

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Drains the blood from the hindgut to the splenic vein

46
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What does the splenic vein do?

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drains the blood From the foregut to the hepatic portal vein

47
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What does the superior mesenteric vein do?

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Drains the blood from the midgut to the hepatic portal vein

48
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What does the IVC do?

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Drains the cleaned blood from the hepatic veins into the right atrium

49
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What ligaments attach the liver to the diaphragm?

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Coronary ligaments

50
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What ligaments attach the liver to the anterior abdominal wall?

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Falciform ligament

51
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What is the name of the remnant of the embryological umbilical vein?

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Ligamentum teres / round ligament

52
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What does the gallbladder do?

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Stores and concentrates bile in between meals

53
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What is the name of the narrowing of the gall bladder/?

A

Cystic duct

54
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What is the narrowing a potential site for

A

Gallstone impaction

55
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How does the blood reach the gallbladder?

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Through tthe cystic artery which is a branch of the right hepatic artery

56
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What can cause gallbladder pain

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Inflammation of the gallbladder or cystic duct following irritations from or ompaction of a gallstone

57
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What type of organ is the gallbladder?

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A foregut organ

58
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Visceral afferents enters the spinal cord between which 2 verticbrae?

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T6 and T9

59
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Where else can pain be found form the gall bladder?

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Hypochondriium
Right shoulder (as a result of diaphrmatic irritation)
60
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What is a cholescystectomy

A

Surgical removal of a gall bladder

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