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Causes of Intestinal Obstruction - Differential Diagnosis
Lesions Extrinsic to the Intestinal Wall:
 • Adhesions: Postoperative, Congenital,
Causes of Intestinal ... Obstruction - Differential ... Postinflammatory • Hernia ... Inflammatory: Crohn's ... #gastroenterology
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Causes - Differential ... • Intestinal ... • Abdominal hernia ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #gastroenterology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Diagnosis:
 • Use a positive diagnostic strategy with
Diagnosis and Management ... Recurrent abdominal pain ... Rifaximin- up to 3 courses ... epithelial cells intestinal ... #gastroenterology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
pathergy test (this is ... disease) Differential ... Gastrointestinal : Crohn ... Nonsurgical abdominal pain ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Chronic Pancreatitis

Definition: A pathologic fibroinflammatory syndrome of the pancreas in individuals with genetic, environmental, and/or other
stress. 60% of CP cases ... only if diagnosis is ... • Abdominal pain ... Pancreatitis #diagnosis #management ... #gastroenterology
Causes of Small Bowel Ulceration
The diagnosis of IBD can’t be made or excluded by biopsies alone
The diagnosis of IBD ... • Enteritis: Crohn's ... Ischaemia, Vasculitis, Behcet's ... Ulceration #diagnosis #differential ... #gastroenterology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
or without back pain ... than 2/3 of the cross-sectional ... • Infectious causes ... - Vasculitis- Heroin ... #neurology #differential
Complications after Bariatric Surgery
Post Bariatric Intestinal Failure:
 • Severe protein malnutrition after bariatric surgery
 • More
Post Bariatric Intestinal ... bloating, abd pain ... Gastric bypass causes ... gastric #bypass #gastroenterology ... #diagnosis #differential