Gastroenterology — Flashcards

What is the underlying pathophysiologic cause of Wernicke encephalopathy? _____

↓ Dietary calcium = _____ risk of calcium oxalate stones

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth = _____ ↓ D-xylose urine levels

Hint: reversible/irreversible

A Chinese patient with persistent mid-epigastric abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting, weight loss, and microcytic anemia raises concern for _____

What is the typical pain of GERD? _____

A patient with nocturnal headaches and morning vomiting are concerning for what? _____

Secretory chronic diarrhea is typically caused by _____ tumors or persistent enterotoxic infection and presents with a(n) normal osmolar gap, no blood/mucous, no fecal fat, and no changes after NPO

_____ is a rare complication of hepatopancreatic interventions that is characterized by hyperbilirubinemia, anemia, and RUQ pain

What is the management for suspected penile lichen sclerosus? _____

Common disease in men. Top of the head (the crown) begins to thin - eventually hair loss predominates. Dx? _____ Pathology? _____