GI path

Question 1

Pain 1-3 hours following a meal

Answer 1

S&S of a peptic ulcer

Question 2

Heart burn that worsens at night, chest pain, difficulty swallowing, and regurgitation of food

Answer 2

GERD

Question 3

Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease are forms of`

Answer 3

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Question 4

The most common type of hernia

Answer 4

Inguinal

Question 5

The cause of this syndrome is un known

Answer 5

Irritable bowel syndrome

Question 6

S&S Weakness, vomiting, measles like rash, dark urine

Answer 6

Hep B

Question 7

This is often linked to alcoholism

Answer 7

Acute pancreatitis

Question 8

Inflammation and infection of the diverticulum

Answer 8

Diverticulitis

Question 9

The most likely cause of cirrhosis is

Answer 9

Alcohol

Question 10

S&S sudden fever and abdominal pain in the lower right quadrant

Answer 10

Acute Apendicitis

Question 11

S&S Upper right quadrant pain, referred to back and right shoulder, indigestion

Answer 11

Gallstones

Question 12

This often has a delayed diagnosis due to the original symptoms being non specific

Answer 12

Crohn’s

Question 13

Inflammation of the mouth

Answer 13

Stomatitis

Question 14

Difficulty swallowing

Answer 14

dysphagia

Question 15

Cause: LES is not functioning properly allowing stomach acids to back flow from stomach into the esophagus

Answer 15

GERD

Question 16

S&S: dysphagia, pain and some times bleeding of malodorous breath. Painfull swallowing.

Answer 16

Carcinoma of the esophagus

Question 17

These tumors are locally invasice and spread into lymph nodes and surrounding mediastinal organs

Answer 17

Carcinoma of the esophagus

Question 18

S&S Bleeding of the stomach

Answer 18

ACUTE blood in vomit
CHONIC Blood in feces

Question 19

A disease characterized by the formation of divertiulum (out pouches in the intestinal wall)

Answer 19

Diverticulosis

Question 20

This disease is characterized by recurrent inflammation of the intestines and a chronic predictable course

Answer 20

IBD - inflammatory bowel disease.

Question 21

Chronic inflammation of the GI tract, most often involving the terminal ileum and colon - segmental

Answer 21

Chrohn’s

Question 22

intestinal inflammation that often involves the large intestine and sometimes appendix involved

Answer 22

Ulcerative colitis

Question 23

S&S - Diarrhea, abdominal pain and weightloss, constipation b/c of thickening of intestines.
- Fever may occure with some paitients.
- Weight loss, vitamin deficiency and anemia secondary to malabsorption are common in chronic stages.

Answer 23

Crohn’s disease.

Question 24

staph, aureus, e. coli, clostridium botulinum

Answer 24

food poisoning/bacterial toxins

Question 25

Caused by enterogenic bacteria of the normal intestinal flora

Answer 25

acute appendicitis

Question 26

Inflammation of the peritoneal lining of the abdominal cavity, caused by bacteria primarily enteric in origin.Intestinal peristalsis slows down until becomes paralyzed

Answer 26

Peritonitis

Question 27

S&S Sharp abdominal pain, rebound tenderness and voluntary guarding of the abdominal muscles.

Answer 27

Peritonitis

Question 28

S&S severe pain radiating to the back. pain increases when supine and decreases when bending forward.

Answer 28

acute pancreatitis

Question 29

A disease in which the pancreas does not produce enough digestive enzymes

Answer 29

Pancreatic insufficiency. 2 major causes cystic fibroses and chronic pancreatitis

Question 30

S&S Diarrhea and weight loss

Answer 30

pancreatic insufficiency

Question 31

A common disorder that affects the large intestine. Cause unknown

Answer 31

IBS

Question 32

S&S cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation or both. chronic condition

Answer 32

IBS

Question 33

S&S will be dependants on nutritional deficiency that result.

Answer 33

Malabsorption resulting from defective transport of nutrients. Gastro Lymphoma/Congestive hears failure with intestinal ischemia

Question 34

Non-neoplastis polyps/benign neoplasms/malignant neoplasms

Answer 34

classification of intestinal tumors

Question 35

S&S will vary dependant on where the tumor occurs

Answer 35

adenocarcinoma of the colon

Question 36

Posthepatic jaundice causes

Answer 36

gall stones in the common bile duct, carcinoma of the head of the pancreas, carcinoma of the common bile duct, carcinoma of the gall bladder

Question 37

common hepatitis viruses

Answer 37

hep, A,B,C

Question 38

Infection is usually of the fecal oral route

Answer 38

HEP A

Question 39

S&S short lived RNA infection, mild, enteric fever with vomiting, loss of appetite and jaundince - does NOT become chronic and cirrhosis does not occure

Answer 39

HEP A

Question 40

Due to DNA virus - blood and or sexual contact

Answer 40

HEP B

Question 41

S&S weakness, vomiting, nausea, mild enlargment of the liver and tenderness, measles like rash in some, dark urine. Symptoms appear 40-180 days after infection.

Answer 41

HEP B

Question 42

Viral hep, due to contact with contaminated blood and or blood products or sexual contact

Answer 42

HEP C

Question 43

HEP C massage precausions

Answer 43

Wear gloves

Question 44

S&S are the same as HEP B -weakness, vomiting, nausea, mild enlargment of the liver and tenderness, measles like rash in some, dark urine. Symptoms appear 40-180 days after infection.

Answer 44

HEP C

Question 45

Hep C and alcoholism account for the majority causes of this disease

Answer 45

cirrhosis

Question 46

S&S Indigestion, pain in the upper right quadreant and may referral to back and right shoulder, right scap or between the sapula

Answer 46

Gallstones

Question 47

Metastatic carcinoma of the liver

Answer 47

metastases reach the liver through the portal and arterial blood system and are related to primary tumors of the GI, Lungs, and breast.