GI Flashcards
(22 cards)
Gingival Hypertrophy
→ Side effect of Calcium Channel Blockers or phenytoin
Bird beak appearance (and distended oesophagus)
Achalasia; if in lower GI imaging is a sign of bowel obstruction
Grey Turner’s (lumbar redness) and Cullen’s sign (umbilical redness) positive
ACUTE PANCREATITIS
I GET SMASHED
Mnemonic for causes of acute pancreatitis → I GET SMASHED: Idiopathic, Gallstones, Ethanol, Trauma, Steroids, Mumps, Autoimmune, Scorpion bites/stings, Hyperlipidaemia/hypothermia/hypercalcaemia, ERCP, Drugs
Murphy’s sign positive
Cholecystitis
Pale stools, jaundice, abdo pain →
biliary obstruction
Abdo distension, caput medusae, shifting dullness
portal hypertension + ascites
Pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum
Crohn’s/UC
“Tinkling bowel sounds”
BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
Vesicular rash + weight loss
→ Coeliac Disease
Virchow’s node (left supra-clavicular)
→ gastric cancer
Urea breath test
→ H pylori
“Rice-water”-like stools
CHOLERA
Presence of AMA (Anti mitochondrial antibodies)
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Presence of ASMA (anti smooth muscle antibodies)
Autoimmune hepatitis
pANCA
PSC
Alpha Feto Protein assay
hepatocellular carcinoma
‘Cobblestone mucosa’; indicating deep fissuring ulceration of mucosa
found in Crohn’s Disease
Diuretic for ascites (due to cirrhosis)
spironolactone
Corkscrew oesophagus on barium swallow
→ diffuse oesophageal spasm
Mallory’s hyaline bodies
alcoholic liver disease (acute hepatitis) and chronic active hepatitis
Thumb-printing on X-ray commonly at splenic flexure
Ischaemic colitis
