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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flashcards

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What is inflammatory bowel disease?

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Group of condition characterised by idiopathic inflammation of the GI tract

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What are the 2 common types of inflammatory bowel disease?

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Crohn’s disease
Ulcerative colitis

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Location of Crohn’s disease

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  • Affects anywhere in GI tract: terminal ileum in most cases + rarely affects rectum
  • Skip lesions (multiple places)
  • transmural (full thickness)
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Location of ulcerative colitis

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Begins in rectum
Can extend to involve the entire colon
Continuous pattern

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Presentation of Crohn’s disease

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  • weight loss
  • right lower quadrant pain
  • low grade fever
  • mildly anaemic
  • perianal inflammation/ulceration/lesions e.g. skin tags, fistulae, abscesses, scarring
  • multiple non-bloody loose stools a day
  • 15-30 year olds
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Presentation of ulcerative colitis

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  • multiple blood stools per day
  • mild abdominal pain
  • no perianal disease
  • normal temperature
  • 20-30 year olds
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Skin changes in inflammatory bowel disease

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Erythema nodosum
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Psoriasis

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What other symptoms can you get if you have inflammatory bowel disease other than the GI?

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  • arthritis
  • MSK pain
  • skin problems: erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, psoriasis
  • primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • uveitis
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Causes of inflammatory bowel disease

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  • genetic pre-disposition
  • gut organisms
  • immune response
  • triggers: antibiotics, infection, diet
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Affect of smoking on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis

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  • worsens Crohn’s disease
  • can be beneficial to ulcerative colitis
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What is a fistula?

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Abnormal connection between two epithelial lined things

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Classic microscopic presentation of Crohn’s disease

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Epitheloid granuloma formation

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What are people with Crohn’s disease likely to have that those with UC don’t?

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Perianal disease
e.g. skin tags, fistula, abscesses, scarring

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Investigation of crohn’s

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  • bloods: anaemic
  • CT/MRI scan: bowel wall thickening, obstruction
  • barium enema/follow through
  • colonoscopy
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What does Crohn’s disease look like?

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  • skip lesions
  • red appearance
  • ulcers
  • mucosal oedema
  • transmural inflammation + thickening of bowel wall + narrowing lumen (strictures)
  • cobblestone appearance
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What is uveitis?

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Inflammation of uvea (middle layer of eye)
Red appearance

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What is pathognomonic to Crohn’s disease?

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Epithelioid granuloma formation

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Pathological changes in ulcerative colitis

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  • chronic inflammatory infiltrate of lamina propria
  • crypt abscesses + distortion
  • reduced numbers of goblet cells
  • pseudopolyps after repeated episodes
  • loss of haustra (inflammation reduces appearance)
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Investigations of ulcerative colitis

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  • bloods: anaemia + serum markers
  • stool cultures
  • colonoscopy
  • plain abdominal radiographs
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Compare Crohn’s disease + ulcerative colitis:
- location
- rectal involvement
- continuous
- gross bleeding
- perianal disease
- fistula formation
- malnutrition
- smoking affect
- transmural inflammation
- granulomas
- fibrosis
- crypt abscesses

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_Crohn’s disease
- location: anywhere in GI tract, mainly terminal ileum
- rectal involvement: rarely
- continuous: no, skip lesions
- gross bleeding: 25%
- perianal disease: yes
- fistula formation: yes
- malnutrition: potential
- smoking affect: damaging
- transmural inflammation: yes
- granulomas: yes
- fibrosis: common
- crypt abscesses: rare

Ulcerative colitis
- location: from rectum to colon
- rectal involvement: yes
- continuous: yes
- gross bleeding: yes
- perianal disease: no
- fistula formation: no
- malnutrition: no
- smoking affect: potentially beneficial
- transmural inflammation: no
- granulomas: no
- fibrosis: no
- crypt abscesses: yes

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What are haustra?

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Small pouches of the colon wall between folds

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Features of Crohn’s disease

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  • C: obblestone appearance
  • R:ose thorn ulcers (deep penetrating linear ulcers)
  • O:bstruction of bowel
  • H:yperplasia of mesenteric lymph nodes
  • N:arrowing of intestinal lumen
  • S:kip lesions

granuloma formation

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Surgical treatment of crohn’s

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  • not curable
  • as little bowel removed as possible
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Surgical treatment of ulcerative colitis

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  • curable
  • in really bad cases: colectomy > stoma
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Medical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

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  • aminosalicylates: for flares + remission sulfasalazine
  • corticosteroids: for flares only prednisolone
  • immunomodulators: fistulas/Maintenon of remission azathioprine

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