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What is the most common cause of acute diarrhea?

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Infectious diarrhea

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C. difficile associated colitis sx spectrum?

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Mild diarrhea to fully developed pseudomembranous colitis to fulminant disease w/perforation or toxic megacolon

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C. difficile associated colitis pathology

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Colonize human GI tract after normal flora altered by antibiotic therapy

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Pseudomembranous colitis

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Necrotic crypt cells with mucin, fibrin, and neutrophils and production of a pseudomembrane

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Diagnostic test for C. difficile

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Stool PCR assay to detect toxin producing C. Difficile strains

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Inflammatory bowel disease

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  • -Composed of chronic ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
  • -Inappropriate immune reactions to luminal bacteria that activates mucosal immunity and suppresses immunoregulation
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Age range that IBD often presents

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15-30 and 50-80 yrs

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Long-term complication of IBD

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Intestinal adenocarcinoma (colitis associated dysplasia)

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Ulcerative colitis

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  • -MUCOSAL DISEASE
  • -Limited to colon and rectum in continuous fashion
  • -“Left-sided disease of colon”
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Ulcerative colitis where only the rectum is involved

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Ulcerative proctitis

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What is basal plasmacytosis associated with?

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Chronic cholitis

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Pathology of ulcerative colitis

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  • -Shallow ulcers with residual pseudopolyp mucosa

- -Lymphoplasmacytic inflammation

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What is architectural distortion associated with?

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Chronic inflammatory process

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What does it mean when neutrophils perforate the crypt epithelium (neutrophilic cryptitis)?

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Acute inflammation occurring and colitis considered active

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Clinical manifestations of ulcerative colitis

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  • -Bloody diarrhea w/mucus discharge
  • -Lower abdominal pain and cramps
  • -Tenesmus (secondary to proctitis)
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Diagnostic test for ulcerative colitis

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pANCA +

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Complications of ulcerative colitis

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Fulminant colitis w/toxic megacolon–> can cause perforation

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Crohn’s disease

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  • -Transmural inflammatory changes (more layers than mucosa)
  • -Can involve any layer of the inflammatory tract
  • -Skip lesions (not continuous)
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Pathology of Crohn’s disease

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  • -Typically involves ileum
  • -Inflammatory polyps
  • -Can present as aphthous ulcers
  • -Extends into submucosa and underlying muscle wall
  • -Cobblestone appearance of mucosa
  • -“Creeping fat”
  • -Fistula tract may be present
  • -Non-caseating granulomas may be present
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Clinical manifestations of Crohn’s disease

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  • -Variable

- -Usually starts with bouts of mild diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain

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What can sometimes trigger Crohn’s disease

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Cigarettes

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What do 10-20% of patients with Crohn’s disease have?

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–Extra-intestinal disease (primary sclerosing cholangitis, erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, iritis/uveitis, HLA B27+ sacroiliitis/arthritis)

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Diagnostic test for Crohn’s disease

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ASCA +

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Complications of Crohn’s disease

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Small bowel strictures, bowel obstruction, bowel perforation w/fistula formation

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Indeterminate colitis
Pathological overlap between UC and CD. Serologic studies may help
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Quiescent colitis
- -Following therapy | - -Persistent crypt architectural distortion w/o inflammation
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Diversion colitis
- -Colitis developing in blind distal segment of colon (excluded from fecal stream) - -Following surgery w/formation of diverting ostomy
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Diversion colitis cause
--Deficiency in short-chain fatty acids
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Pathology of diversion colitis
- -Mucosal erythema - -Friability - -Nodularity
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Tx of diversion colitis
Re-anastomosis w/return to normal fecal stream or SCFA enemas
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Radiation entercolitis
- -Occurs when GI tract irradiated - -Epithelial damage acutely - -Chronic injury ischemic from vascular injury
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Pathology of radiation enterocolitis
- -Ulcers, strictures, fistulas, serosal adhesions - -Patchy erythema, secondary to mucosal telangiectasias w/blood vessel hyalinization and thickened walls. - -Radiation fibroblasts may be present
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Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis
- -Can develop during 1st week in premature infants - -Small and large bowel necrosis (can become transmural) - -Bacterial overgrowth produces gas in intestinal wall
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Pneumatosis intestinalis
- -Bacterial overgrowth causing gas in intestinal wall | - -Can be seen in neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis
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Microscopic colitis
- -Chronic watery diarrhea - -Normal colonoscopy w/intact crypt architecture - -Though to be autoimmune mechanism - -Associated with Celiac disease - -Tx: glucocorticoids
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2 types of microscopic colitis
Lymphocytic colitis | Collagenous colitis
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Lymphocytic colitis
- -Increased lamina propria chronic inflammation - -Increased plasma cells - -Increased intraepithelial lymphocytes - -Increased surface epithelial damage
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Collagenous colitis
- -Band of subepithelial collagen in addition to changes seen in lymphocytic colitis - -Increased lamina propria chronic inflammation - -Increased plasma cells - -Increased intraepithelial lymphocytes - -Increased surface epithelial damage
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Classes of drugs implicated in drug induced enterocolitis
NSAIDs Chemotherapeutic lesions Antibiotics
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Irritable bowel syndrome
- -Chronic, relapsing abdominal pain or discomfort, bloating and change in bowel habits (diarrhea or constipation) - -Absence of any known causative agent that could explain the sx (diagnosis of exclusion)
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Endoscopic and colonoscopic findings of IBS
No abnormalities
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Prevalence of IBS
5-10%
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Pathogenesis of IBS
- -Not known - -May be related to increased/decreased colonic contraction/transit rates, excess bile acid synthesis, malabsorption of bile acids, disturbance in enteric nervous system function, immune activation, shift in gut microbiome
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Ischemic bowel disease causes
- -Arterial obstruction/thrombosis - -Mesenteric venous thrombosis - -Hypoperfusion
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Bowel segments affected in ischemic bowel disease
--Segments located near end of arterial supply (splenic flexure, sigmoid colon, rectum)
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Complications of transmural bowel necrosis
- -Sepsis - -Septic shock - -Death
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Presentation of acute mesenteric ischemia w/transmural necrosis
- -Sudden onset abdominal pain - -Loss of bowel sounds - - N and V - -Bloody diarrhea (melanotic, dark, tarry stool)
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Diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia w/transmural necrosis
High level of suspicion and demonstration of vascular obstruction
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Presentation of chronic mesenteric ischemia
- -Abdominal pain following eating (mesenteric angina) - -Bouts of bloody diarrhea may occur - -Sx can mimic inflammatory bowel disease
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Angiodysplasia
Lesion consisting of malformed submucosal and mucosal blood vessels. Dilated tortuous capillaries in mucosa
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Clinical presentation of Angiodysplasia
Occurs in cecum and R colon in older adults. Bleeding can be acute and massive or chronic and intermittent
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Ischemic bowel disease population?
Generally older individuals w/coexisting CV disease
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Pathology of ischemic bowel disease
- -Mucosal ischemic injury--> atrophy/loss of surface epithelium, hemorrhagic and hyalinized lamina propria, crypt atrophy - -Severe injury leads to coagulative necrosis of bowel layers
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Prevalence and etiology of angiodysplasia
- -Prevalence: 1% | - -Etiology: uncertain, may be acquired and incidence increases with age
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Complication of angiodysplasia
Hematochezia
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Diagnosis of angiodysplasia
Colonoscopy and angiography
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Sigmoid diverticulitis
Formation of multiple diverticulae in sigmoid colon that are inflamed
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Pathology of sigmoid diverticulitis
- -Elevated intraluminal pressure in sigmoid colon - -Focal discontinuities of inner muscular coat - -Can can outpouchings of mucosa and formation of diverticulae
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Common complications of sigmoid diverticulitis
- -Abscess - -Obstruction - -Perforation - -Fistula
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Treatment of sigmoid diverticulitis
--Clear liquid diet and antibiotic followed by high fiber diet. If complicated, may need surgery
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Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome
--Malfunction of puborectalis muscle--> excessive straining on defecation--> can lead to mucosal prolapse that can ulcerate and form polypoid abscesses
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Who do you usually see solitary rectal ulcer syndrome in?
Relatively young, healthy adults w/blood in stools, pain with defecation, alternating constipation/diarrhea
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What can solitary rectal ulcer syndrome mimic?
Adenocarcinoma or ulcers seen in Crohn's disease
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Morphology of solitary rectal ulcer syndrome?
Fibromuscular hyperplasia of lamina propria, inflammation and ulceration, reactive crypt hyperplasia

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