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RARE MULTISYSTEMIC ILLNESS CAUSED BY INFECTION WITH THE BACILLUS TROPHERYMA WHIPPELLI
WHIPPLE'S DISEASE
WHIPPLE'S DISEASE
ILLNESS CAUSED BY THE INFECTION WITH THE BACILLUS TROPHERYMA WHIPELLI
SIGNS OF WHIPPLE'S
WEIGHT LOSS IN NEARLY ALL PATIENTS, ARTHRALGIAS, LOW GRADE FEVER, LYMPHADENOPATHY, MYOCARDIAL AND VALVULAR INVOLVEMENT--OCULAR SYPTOMS B/C OF VIT A DEF
WHIPPLE'S MOST COMMON IN WHAT POPULATION
WHITE MEN IN 4TH TO 6TH DECADE
HOW DO YOU DIAGNOSE WHIPPLE'S?
HISTOLOGIC EVALUATION OF THE INVOLVED TISSUES; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY OF THE DUODENUM
CONSIDER WHIPPLE'S IN PATIENT'S WITH WHAT?
MALABSORPTION
IF WHIPPLE'S IS LEFT UNTREATED (NORMALLY TREATED WITH ABX 2X PER DAY FOR ONE YEAR), WHAT IS THE RESULT?
IF UNTREATED, DISEASE IS FATAL; MAY HAVE PERMANENT NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE
WHAT DOES BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH CAUSE IN THE SMALL INTESTINE?
DIRECT DAMAGE TO THE BOWEL MUCOSA CAUSING MALABSORPTION
HOW DOES BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH CAUSE MALABSORPTION?
BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH CAUSES DAMAGE TO THE BOWEL MUCOSA WHICH RESULTS IN AN INABILITY TO ABSORB
CONSIDER BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH IN ANYONE WITH WHAT SYMPTOMS?
DIARRHEA, STEATORRHEA, WEIGHT LOSS, OR MACROCYTIC ANEMIA
LABS AND STUDIES FOR BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH
STOOL COLLECTION; SMALL BOWEL BARIUM RADIOGRAPHY OR CT ENTEROGRAPHY TO LOOK FOR MECHANICAL ISSUES; BREATH TEST; CULTURE OF JEJUNAL SECRETIONS (NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE)
TREATMENT FOR BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH
CIPRO, AUGMETIN, SEPTRA AND FLAGIL COMBINATION; TREAT DEFECT, NOT JUST THE SYMPTOMS
THIS IS A MALABSORPTION CONDITION SECONDARY TO A REMOVAL OF SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF S.I.
SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME
SIGNS OF SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME
WEIGHT LOSS AND DIARRHEA
IN A RESECTION OF THE DUODENUM RESULTING IN MALABSORPTION, WHAT NUTRIENTS WOULD YOU TEST FOR TO DIAGNOSE?
FOLATE, CA, MAG, AND IRON
RESECTION OF THE TERMINAL ILEUM MAY CAUSE MALABSORPTION OF WHAT?
BILE SALTS AND B12; TREAT WITH MONTHLY B12
RESECTION OF GREATER LENGTHS OF THE SMALL BOWEL SHOULD BE TREATED WITH WHAT SUPPLEMENTS?
VITAMIN SUPPLEMENT, LOW FAT DIET, CALCIUM
MOST COMMON CAUSES OF SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME
CROHN'S DISEASE, MESENTERIC INFARCTION, TUMOR RESECTION, TRAUMA, RADIATION ENTERITIS
PREVALENCE OF LACTOSE INTOLERANCE
GREATER IN NATIVE AMERICANS, ASIAN AMERICANS
MALABSORBED LACTOSE IS FERMENTED BY THE INTESTINAL BACTERIA. WHAT DOES THIS CAUSE?
GAS AND ORGANIC ACIDS; INCREASED STOOL OSMOTIC LOAD AND RESULTANT FLUID LOSS
SYMPTOMS OF LACTOSE INTOLERANCE
GREAT VARIANCE BETWEEN PATIENTS; MOST CAN DRINK 1-2 GLASSES OF MILK W/O ISSUE; BLOATING, ABDOMINAL CRAMPS, FLATULENCE
MOST WIDELY AVAILABLE TEST FOR DIAGNOSIS OF LACTOSE DEFICIENCY
HYDROGEN BREATH TEST
WHAT IS A POSITIVE HYDROGEN BREATH TEST?
AFTER INGESTION OF 50 G OF LACTOSE, A RISE IN BREATH HYDROGEN OF GREATER THAN 20 PPM WITHIN 90 MINUTES IS A POSITIVE TEST
INITIAL TX OF LACTOSE INTOLERANCE
LACTOSE FREE DIET---SEE IF SYMPTOMS RESOLVE
WHAT IS LACTASE?
A BRUSH BORDER ENZYME THAT HYDROLYZES LACTOSE INTO GLUCOSE AND GALACTOSE
ETIOLOGY FOR ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS
IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS AFTER SURGERY; SEVERE MEDICAL ILLNESS SUCH AS PNEUMONIA, INTUBATION SEPSIS, SEVERE INFECTIONS; MEDS THAT AFFECT INTESTINAL MOTILITY
THIS IS NEUROGENIC FAILURE OR LOSS OF PERISTALSIS IN THE INTESTINE WITHOUT MECHANICAL OBSTRUCTION
ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS
LAB FINDINGS FOR ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS
ABNORMALITIES ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO AN UNDERLYING CONDITION; DO TONS OF LABS AND TREAT WHATEVER IS FOUND; CAN DO XRAYS AND CT IF NEEDED
SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS
MILD DIFFUSE CONTINUOUS ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING, ABDOMINAL DISTENTION, DIMINISHED OR NO BOWEL SOUNDS
ON A PLAIN RADIOGRAPH, WHAT WILL YOU SEE IN ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS?
X RAY WILL LOOK PRETTY NORMAL; WILL BE HARD TO TELL IF IT IS ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS OR A PARTIAL SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
TREATMENT OF ACUTE PARALYTIC ILEUS
TREAT THE PRIMARY MEDICAL OR SURGICAL CAUSE; RESTRICT ORAL INTAKE UNTIL BOWEL RETURNS TO NORMAL
RARE DISORDER THAT INVOLVES MASSIVE DILATION OF THE CECUM OR RIGHT COLON THAT OCCURS IN POST SURGICAL OR IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE MEDICAL ILLNESS
ACUTE COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION (OGILVE'S SYNDROME)
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION AND GASTROPARESIS
V/D, ABDOMINAL DISTENTION, ABDOMINAL PAIN IS UNCOMMON; DILATION OF AFFECTED GI TRACT, RULE OUT OBSTRUCTION W/ ENDOSCOPY
WHAT WILL RADIOGRAPH IN CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION AND GASTROPARESIS?
DILATION OF THE AFFECTED GI TRACT; R/O OBSTRUCTION WITH BARIUM OR ENDOSCOPY
CAUSES OF CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION AND GASTROPARESIS
ENDOCRINE (DM, HYPOTHYROID), POST SURGICAL, NEUROLOGIC (MS, MD, PARKINSON'S), RHEUMATOLOGIC, INFECTIOUS (CHAGA'S), ANOREXIA, PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES
TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION AND GASTROPARESIS
SMALL FREQUENT MEALS; METOCLOPRAMIDE (REGLAN)- INCREASES MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS IN THE UPPER GI TRACT
SMALL INTESTINAL LYMPHOMAS ARE MOST COMMON WHERE?
IN THE DISTAL SMALL INTESTINE
MOST COMMON TYPE OF SMALL INTESTINAL LYMPHOMA
NON-HODGKIN'S B CELL LYMPHOMAS
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF SMALL INTESTINAL LYMPHOMA
ABDOMINAL PAIN, WEIGHT LOSS, N AND V, DISTENTION, ANEMIA, OCCULT BLOOD IN STOOL, FEVERS ARE UNUSUAL
DIAGNOSIS OF SMALL INTESTINAL LYMPHOMA
BARIUM RADIOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY
TREATMENT OF SMALL INTESTINAL LYMPHOMA
DEPENDS ON STAGE, SURGICAL RESECTION WHEN POSSIBLE, SURGICAL DEBULKING IN ADVANCED CASES (SURGICAL REMOVAL OF PART OF THE TUMOR THAT CANNOT BE REMOVED TO ALLOW RADIATION TO POSSIBLY BE MORE EFFECTIVE); CHEMO W/ OR W/O RADIATION
MOST COMMON NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR
CARCINOID TUMOR---MOST OFTEN OCCUR IN THE SMALL INTESTINE
WHAT IS THE BEST INDICATOR OF PROGNOSIS FOR CARCINOID TUMORS?
INVASIVE GROWTH OR DISTANT METASTASIS
TREATMENT OF CARCINOID TUMORS?
LOCAL EXCISION IF CONFINED TO THE SMALL INTESTINE (85% CURE RATE--MOST ARE LESS THAN 2 CM IN SIZE); PALLIATIVE TX FOR LATE DISEASE
WHAT ARE SARCOMAS?
MALIGNANT STROMAL TUMORS THAT MAY BECOME OBSTRUCTIVE IN THE SMALL INTESTINE, CAUSE INTUSSUSCEPTION (INVAGINATION OF PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE INTO ANOTHER PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE); OR BLEEDING IN WHICH SURGICAL EXCISION IS THE TREATMENT
MOST COMMON ABDOMINAL SURGICAL EMERGENCY
APPENDICITIS
WHAT CAUSES OBSTRUCTION OF THE APPENDIX?
FECALITH, INFLAMMATION, FOREIGN BODY, NEOPLASM
IF APPENDICITIS IS UNTREATED WITHIN 36 HOURS, WHAT IS THE RESULT?
GANGRENE AND PERFORATION DEVELOP
SYMPTOMS OF APPENDICITIS
N AND V, VAGUE PERIUMBILICAL PAIN, LOCALIZED RLQ PAIN, FEELING OF CONSTIPATION, LOW GRADE FEVER, REBOUND TENDERNESS, PSOAS SIGN, OBTURATOR SIGN
LABS TO DO WITH APPENDICITIS
CBC- LEUKOCYTOSIS; URINALYSIS- HEMATURIA OR PYURIA IN 25%; CT PREFERRED
TREATMENT FOR APPENDICITIS
APPENDECTOMY; IV ANTIBIOTICS
TREATMENT OF CARCINOID TUMORS?
LOCAL EXCISION IF CONFINED TO THE SMALL INTESTINE (85% CURE RATE--MOST ARE LESS THAN 2 CM IN SIZE); PALLIATIVE TX FOR LATE DISEASE
WHAT ARE SARCOMAS?
MALIGNANT STROMAL TUMORS THAT MAY BECOME OBSTRUCTIVE IN THE SMALL INTESTINE, CASUE INTUSSUSCEPTION (INVAGINATION OF PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE INTO ANOTHER PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE); OR BLEEDING IN WHICH SURGICAL EXCISION IS THE TREATMENT
MOST COMMON ABDOMINAL SURGICAL EMERGENCY
APPENDICITIS
WHAT CAUSES OBSTRUCTION OF THE APPENDIX?
FECALITH, INFLAMMATION, FOREIGN BODY, NEOPLASM
IF APPENDICITIS IS UNTREATED WITHIN 36 HOURS, WHAT IS THE RESULT?
GANGRENE AND PERFORATION DEVELOP
SYMPTOMS OF APPENDICITIS
N AND V, VAGUE PERIUMBILICAL PAIN, LOCALIZED RLQ PAIN, FEELING OF CONSTIPATION, LOW GRADE FEVER, REBOUND TENDERNESS, PSOAS SIGN, OBTURATOR SIGN
LABS TO DO WITH APPENDICITIS
CBC- LEUKOCYTOSIS; URINALYSIS- HEMATURIA OR PYURIA IN 25%; CT PREFERRED
TREATMENT FOR APPENDICITIS
APPENDECTOMY; IV ANTIBIOTICS
WHEN WOULD YOU USE A NG TUBE WITH A GASTRIC BLEED?
SHOULD BE PLACED IN ALL PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ACTIVE UPPER GI SOURCES OF BLEEDING (RED BLOOD/COFFEE GROUNDS- UPPER GI BLEED)
WHEN DO YOU NOT USE AN NG TUBE IN THE PRESENCE OF UPPER A GASTRIC BLEED?
WHEN THERE IS ESOPHAGEAL INJURY THAT IS SUICIDAL/ACCIDENTAL, SEVERE BURNING, CHEST PAIN, GAGGING, DYSPHAGIA, DROOLING WITH WHEEZING OR STRIDOR OR W/ ASPIRATION
TREATMENT FOR IBS
REASSURE, EDUCATION, DIET THERAPY- STAY AWAY FROM INTOLERANCES, INCREASE FIBER, DECREASE LACTOSE; MEDS ARE RESERVED FOR PATIENTS WITH SEVERE TREATMENT THAT DO NOT RESPOND TO CONSERVATIVE MEASURES
ANTISPASMODIC MED USED FOR IBS
BENTYL
ANTICHOLINERGIC USED FOR POSTPRANDIAL ABDOMINAL PAIN GIVEN BEFORE MEALS IN IBS PATIENTS
LOPERAMIDE AND LOMOTIL
WHAT ARE PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS USED FOR IBS?
TRICYCLICS FOR DIARRHEA DOMINANT PATIENTS; SSRI'S
HOW MUCH FLUID WILL BE PRESENT IN ASCITES BEFORE YOU CAN SEE IT?
1500 ML
PATHOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION OF FLUID IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY
ASCITES
CAUSES WITH A NORMAL PERITONEUM OF ASCITES
PORTAL HYPERTENSION IN GREATER THAN 80%--HEPATIC CONGESTION, LIVER DISEASE, PORTAL VEIN OCCLUSION
CAUSES OF ASCITES WHEN THE PERITONEUM IS DISEASED
INFECTIOUS, MALIGNANCY, INFLAMMATORY DISORDER
WHEN WOULD YOU USE A NG TUBE WITH A GASTRIC BLEED?
SHOULD BE PLACED IN ALL PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ACTIVE UPPER GI SOURCES OF BLEEDING (RED BLOOD/COFFEE GROUNDS- UPPER GI BLEED)
WHEN DO YOU NOT USE AN NG TUBE IN THE PRESENCE OF UPPER A GASTRIC BLEED?
WHEN THERE IS ESOPHAGEAL INJURY THAT IS SUICIDAL/ACCIDENTAL, SEVERE BURNING, CHEST PAIN, GAGGING, DYSPHAGIA W/ DROOLING WITH WHEEZING OR STRIDOR OR W/ ASPIRATION
TREATMENT FOR IBS
REASSURE, EDUCATION, DIET THERAPY- STAY AWAY FROM INTOLERANCES, INCREASE FIBER, DECREASE LACTOSE; MEDS ARE RESERVED FOR PATIENTS WITH SEVERE TREATMENT THAT DO NOT RESPOND TO CONSERVATIVE MEASURES
ANTISPASMODIC MED USED FOR IBS
BENTYL
ANTICHOLINERGIC USED FOR POSTPRANDIAL ABDOMINAL PAIN GIVEN BEFORE MEALS IN IBS PATIENTS
LOPERAMIDE AND LOMOTIL
WHAT ARE PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS USED FOR IBS?
TRICYCLICS FOR DIARRHEA DOMINANT PATIENTS; SSRI'S
HOW MUCH FLUID WILL BE PRESENT IN ASCITES BEFORE YOU CAN SEE IT?
1500 ML
PATHOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION OF FLUID IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY
ASCITES
CASUES WITH A NORMAL PERITONEUM OF ASCITES
PORTAL HYPERTENSION IN GREATER THAN 80%--HEPATIC CONGESTION, LIVER DISEASE, PORTAL VEIN OCCLUSION
CAUSES OF ASCITES WHEN THE PERITONEUM IS DISEASED
INFECTIOUS, MALIGNANCY, INFLAMMATORY DISORDER
TREATMENT OF CARCINOID TUMORS?
LOCAL EXCISION IF CONFINED TO THE SMALL INTESTINE (85% CURE RATE--MOST ARE LESS THAN 2 CM IN SIZE); PALLIATIVE TX FOR LATE DISEASE
WHAT ARE SARCOMAS?
MALIGNANT STROMAL TUMORS THAT MAY BECOME OBSTRUCTIVE IN THE SMALL INTESTINE, CAUSE INTUSSUSCEPTION (INVAGINATION OF PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE INTO ANOTHER PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE); OR BLEEDING IN WHICH SURGICAL EXCISION IS THE TREATMENT
MOST COMMON ABDOMINAL SURGICAL EMERGENCY
APPENDICITIS
WHAT CAUSES OBSTRUCTION OF THE APPENDIX?
FECALITH (FECAL STONE), INFLAMMATION, FOREIGN BODY, NEOPLASM
IF APPENDICITIS IS UNTREATED WITHIN 36 HOURS, WHAT IS THE RESULT?
GANGRENE AND PERFORATION DEVELOP
SYMPTOMS OF APPENDICITIS
N AND V, VAGUE PERIUMBILICAL PAIN, LOCALIZED RLQ PAIN, FEELING OF CONSTIPATION, LOW GRADE FEVER, REBOUND TENDERNESS, PSOAS SIGN, OBTURATOR SIGN
LABS TO DO WITH APPENDICITIS
CBC- LEUKOCYTOSIS; URINALYSIS- HEMATURIA OR PYURIA IN 25%; CT PREFERRED
TREATMENT FOR APPENDICITIS
APPENDECTOMY; IV ANTIBIOTICS
WHEN WOULD YOU USE A NG TUBE WITH A GASTRIC BLEED?
SHOULD BE PLACED IN ALL PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ACTIVE UPPER GI SOURCES OF BLEEDING (RED BLOOD/COFFEE GROUNDS- UPPER GI BLEED)
WHEN DO YOU NOT USE AN NG TUBE IN THE PRESENCE OF UPPER A GASTRIC BLEED?
WHEN THERE IS ESOPHAGEAL INJURY THAT IS SUICIDAL/ACCIDENTAL, SEVERE BURNING, CHEST PAIN, GAGGING, DYSPHAGIA, DROOLING WITH WHEEZING OR STRIDOR OR W/ ASPIRATION
TREATMENT FOR IBS
REASSURE, EDUCATION, DIET THERAPY- STAY AWAY FROM INTOLERANCES, INCREASE FIBER, DECREASE LACTOSE; MEDS ARE RESERVED FOR PATIENTS WITH SEVERE TREATMENT THAT DO NOT RESPOND TO CONSERVATIVE MEASURES
ANTISPASMODIC MED USED FOR IBS
BENTYL
ANTICHOLINERGIC USED FOR POSTPRANDIAL ABDOMINAL PAIN GIVEN BEFORE MEALS IN IBS PATIENTS
LOPERAMIDE AND LOMOTIL
WHAT ARE PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS USED FOR IBS?
TRICYCLICS FOR DIARRHEA DOMINANT PATIENTS; SSRI'S
HOW MUCH FLUID WILL BE PRESENT IN ASCITES BEFORE YOU CAN SEE IT?
1500 ML
PATHOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION OF FLUID IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY
ASCITES
CAUSES WITH A NORMAL PERITONEUM OF ASCITES
PORTAL HYPERTENSION IN GREATER THAN 80%--HEPATIC CONGESTION, LIVER DISEASE, PORTAL VEIN OCCLUSION
CAUSES OF ASCITES WHEN THE PERITONEUM IS DISEASED
INFECTIOUS, MALIGNANCY, INFLAMMATORY DISORDER
IF THE SAAG RATIO IS GREATER THAN 1.1 IN ASCITES, WHAT IS THE CAUSE?
PORTAL HYPERTENSION
IF THE SAAG RATIO IS LESS THAN 1.1 IN ASCITES, WHAT IS THE CAUSE?
NON PORTAL HYPERTENSION CAUSES
CAUSES OF MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME?
BLOODY VOMIT, HX OF VOMITING, WRETCHING