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What condition can lead to fibrosis of the exocrine pancreas?

Common disease that causes atrophy of the pancreatic acini and malabsorption:
Hemochromatosis

CF
most likely cause of febrile, non-bloody diarrhea:

febrile, bloody diarrhea:

afebrile, non-bloody diarrhea:
infection

infectious enteritis, amebiasis - travel, IBD

viral GE, food intolerance, overfeeding, Abx use
Why do pancreatitis patients have:
fever/shock?

obstructive jaundice?

hypocalcemia?
fever/shock - bad products of auto-digestion in blood

obstructive - destruction near common bile duct

hypocalcemia - fat necrosis calcifying
normal growth, high intake of concentrated carbohydrates (fruit juices), may be related to minor viral syndromes:

Can lead to short term _________ or __________ deficiency.
Toddler's diarrhea

lactase
fructase
The large majority of pancreatic cancers are ______________ arising from the ________.

60% of pancreatic cancers arise in the ______.

Pancreatic cancer pts often also have _________, due to _______ resistance.
adenocarcinoma, from the ducts.

head

diabetes, insulin resistance
What is the typical pathology finding in appendicitis?

What is a mucocele?
hyperemia, pus surrounded by fibrin --> gangrene, possible rupture

appendix transformed into a tense-walled bag of mucus
The continuous, painful urge to defecate is called _________.

bloody-mucoid stools, usually not voluminous, usually painful
tenesmus

dysentery
___________ is a bacterial ulcer of the cecum.

_______________ results from depriving mucosal cells of the fatty-acids they need.
acute typhilitis

diversion colitis
failure of Auerbach's and Meissner's plexi to develop over a portion of bowel is called:

What syndrome has an increased incidence?
Hirschprung's

Down's
Mucosa pooching out 120 deg. through the muscularis propria:

Cramping, constipation, diarrhea without a good anatomic correlation:
diverticulitis

functional bowel syndrome (spastic colon)
inflammatory disease, starts in rectum, continuous pathology, inflammation, hemorrhage, tissue loss, damage is usually in the mucosa:

Accumulations of neutrophils in the dilated bases of surviving colonic crypts:
idiopathic ulcerative colitis

crypt abscesses
Differences between IUC and amebiasis?

Between UIC and shigellosis/salmenellosis?
Amebiasis - usually more distal (rectal, etc)

shigellosis/salmenellosis - superficial crypt abscesses, UIC - deep crypt abscesses
What causes pseudomembranous colitis?

What causes hemorrhagic colitis?
C. diff

K. oxytoca
Anal cancer is usually what type?

Usually caused by what?
squamous cell

HPV infection
from salads, cool foods, person-person, often at daycare, small # for infection:
Shigella
Most common cause of acute renal failure, recurrent diarrhea, *little or no fever*, generalized tenderness:

recurrent diarrhea, not bloody, initially watery, foul smelling, now bloating, cramps, weight loss, fever, other kids at school/daycare sick:
EHEC O157:H7

Giardia
7 mo. infant, intermittent diarrhea, recent bloody stools, 102 fever, multiple small stools, family been sick:

Which bacteria responsible for Guillain-Barre syndrome?

can get by eating eggs, poultry, H2O, exotic pets (like turtles)
Campylobacter

C. jejuni

Salmonella
8 y/o, frequent loose stools, pungent yellow-green stools:

#1 tx for diarrhea?

How to prevent rotavirus?

S/S of rotavirus?
Rotavirus

fluid replacement

HANDWASHING!

emesis, smelly watery diarrhea, elevated AST, possible intestinal cell damage
6 y/o pt, fever, diarrhea, decreased appetite, vomiting this am, 102 temp, sits w/ R leg flexed, R side rebound tenderness, CBC elevated w/ left shift:

Rovsing's sign?

Obturator sign? Iliopsoas sign?
appendicitis

RLQ pain w/ L side palpation

hips flexed, internally rotated causes pain

pain on extension of R hip
common causes of GI bleeds in children <2 y/o?

common causes of GI bleeds, > 2 y/o?
intussussception, Meckel's bacterial enteritis

NSAID's, baceterial enteritis, Meckel's Mallory-Weiss
11 mo. infant, irritability/vomiting, non bilious emesis; dry oral mucosa, poor turgor, cap refill > 3 sec., oval-shaped mass, RUQ, currant-jelly stools, occult blood +:

classic sign on BE?
intussusception

coiled spring
Chronic obstructive pancreatitis results from ___________.

Differences between chronic and chronic obstructive pancreatitis?
obstruction of the pancreatic duct

Chronic: lobules unevenly scarred, protein plugs, perineural inflammation

Chronic obstructive: lobules evenly affected, no protein plugs, nerves OK
Chronic diarrhea:
delayed meconium plug, abd distension, constipation:

delayed meconium plug, abd pain, poor weight gain, recurrent respiratory problems:

Thrush, poor growth, recurrent serious infections:
Hirschprung's

CF

HIV
Idiopathic hereditary pancreatitis often results from a mutant __________ gene.

How is a dx of pancreatitis normally made?

Most common cause of pancreatitis?
trypsinogen

damage to the acinar cells, elevated amylase/lipase

Alcoholism
4 causes of infectious "outbreaks"?

#1 cause of non-bloody diarrhea in pediatric pts:

Most worrisome type of diarrhea in pediatrics? Why?
person-person, Abx use, traveling, immunosuppressed

Rotavirus

Bloody, afebrile diarrhea
possibly severe causes