Week 3: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flashcards
(74 cards)
Case 1 history

Case 1 additional history

Case 1 Labs

Case 1 colonoscopy

Case 2 history

Case 2 additional history

Case 2 labs

Case 2 contrast

Case 2 Colonoscopy

What is IBD?

What types of IBD are there?
Crohn’s Disease
Ulcerative Colitis

Other causes of intestinal inflammation
- Infections
- Medications (NSAIDs, Antibiotics)
- Ischemia
- Radiation
Proposed etiologies of IBD
- Genetic
- Infection (dysbiosis)
- immune dysfunction
- Environmental factors
- Intestinal barrier defect
Pathogenesis of IBD

IBD pathways

Genetic factors of IBD
- Genetic mutation in NOD-2 gene in 10-15% of patients with Crohn’s disease most common in Jews
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Role of microbes

Epidemiology of IBD

Risk factors for IBD

A broad overview of how Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

Ulcerative colitis location of inflammation
Inflammation in the colonic mucosa where only the colon is involved
inflammation affects the rectum and extends proximally to affect a variable extent of colon

Ulcerative colitis duration of inflammation
Continuous inflammation
Forms of IBD that are associated with extraintestinal complications
Both
- Crohn’s Disease
- Ulcerative colitis
Way to remember ulcerative colitis
ULCCCERS
- Ulcers
- Large intestine
- Continuous/Colon cancer/ Crypt abscesses
- extends proximally, red diarrhea, sclerosing cholangitis



































