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1
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Side effect of Calcium
Channel Blockers or phenytoin

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Gingival Hypertrophy -> Gingivectomy/Biting on own gums

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Bird beak appearance (and distended oesophagus)

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→ Achalasia; if in lower GI
imaging is a sign of bowel obstruction

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Grey Turner’s (lumbar redness) and Cullen’s sign (umbilical redness) positive →

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acute Pancreatitis

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4
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Murphy’s sign positive →

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Cholecystitis

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5
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Pale stools, jaundice, abdo pain →

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biliary obstruction

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6
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Abdo distension, caput medusae, shifting dullness →

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portal hypertension + ascites

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7
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Pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum →

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Crohn’s / UC

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8
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“Tinkling bowel sounds” →

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bowel obstruction

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9
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Vesicular rash + weight loss →

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Coeliac Disease

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10
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Virchow’s node (left supra-clavicular) →

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gastric cancer

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11
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Urea breath test →

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H pylori

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12
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“Rice-water”-like stools →

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vibrio cholera

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13
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→ Presence of AMA (Anti mitochondrial antibodies)

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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

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14
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→ Presence of ASMA (anti smooth muscle antibodies)

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Autoimmune hepatitis

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15
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Alpha Feto Protein assay

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hepatocellular carcinoma (or teratoma)

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16
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‘Cobblestone mucosa’; indicating deep fissuring ulceration of mucosa →

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found in Crohn’s Disease

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17
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Diuretic for ascites (due to cirrhosis) →

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spironolactone

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18
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Corkscrew oesophagus on barium swallow →

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diffuse oesophageal spasm

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19
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Severe abdo pain + D&V after raw milk →

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Campylobacter

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20
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Russell’s sign →

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self induced vomiting

21
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Mallory’s hyaline bodies →

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alcoholic liver disease (acute hepatitis) and chronic active hepatitis

22
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Crypt abscess / cryptitis →

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Inflammatory Bowel CROHN’S

23
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Onion skinning fibrosis, beading of bile ducts →

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Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

24
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Thumb-printing on X-ray commonly at splenic flexure →

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Ischaemic colitis

25
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Charcot’s triad →

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Acute cholangitis i.e. fever, jaundice and abdominal pain
secondary to cholelithiasis.

26
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Causes for abdominal mass:

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A CHEMICAL

AAA,
crohn’s,
hernia,
enlarged organ,
malignancy,
intersusception,
cyst or abcess,
appendicitis,
lymphadenopathy

27
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Causes for bowel obstruction:

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BATH VIPS:

bolus,
adhesions,
tumour,
hernia,

volvulus,
intersussception,
pseudo-obstruction,
stricture.

28
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Side effect of spironlactone-

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gynaecomastia
-an increase in the amount of breast gland tissue in boys or men

29
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what type of mouth disease do people with Crohn’s have?

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(stomatitis gangrenosum)

30
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dukes classification –

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A – confined to bowel wall,
B – local spread outwith bowel wall,
C – lymph node metastases

31
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causes of liver disease

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A - Autoimmune
B- Hepatitis B
C- Hepatitis C
D- Drugs e.g. paracetamol
E- Ethanol
F- Fatty Liver Disease (NASH ~ obesity)
G- Growth (cancer/metastases)
H- Haemodynamic e.g. congestive heart failure
I - Infiltration [iron] (e.g. haemochromatosis, Wilson’s Disease) or Infective

32
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to remember AST is increased in alcoholic liver disease:

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wASTed
- or AST: Alcohol gets you STeaming

33
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ALT is more specific to the Liver than AST

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aLt Liver

34
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Causes of abdominal distension - 5 (or 6) F’s:

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Fat
Foetus
Flatus
Faeces
Fluid
Fucking massive tumour

35
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causes of pancreatitis

A

I GET SMASHED

I- idiopathic

G-gallstones
E-ethanol
T-trauma

S-scorpion bite
M-mumps
A-autoimmune
S-steroids
H- hyperlididemia/hypercalcaemia
E-ERCP
D-druugs

36
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ABCDE (risks for melanoma) →

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Asymmetry, border, colour, diameter, evolving/elevation

37
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Rose spots, spots that blanch on pressure→

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Typhoid

38
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C breath test →

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bacterial overgrowth

39
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South east asia, thickening in small bowel folds, flocculation in barium enema =

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Tropical Sprue

40
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T cell deficiency=

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DiGeorge system

41
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Alpha 1-antitypsin deficiency

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(Young non-smoker and potentially liver damage)

42
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what does salters triad show

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aspirin induced asthma

43
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what is chaplains syndrome

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Rheumatoid arthritis and pneumoconiosis

44
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oblique fissure

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rib 6

45
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horizontal fissure

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rib 4

46
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where is the middle lobe auscultated

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on right side between rib 4 and 6

47
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describe Boyles law

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pressure exerted by gas varies inversely with the volume of gas – as volume increases, pressure decreases

48
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what is type 1 sensitivity

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IgE mediated (Fc receptors) – mast cell degradation

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