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Normal Vitamin and Mineral Absorption

#Diagnosis #Absorption #Nutrient #Mineral #Vitamin #Duodenum #Ileum #Jejunum #Location #Map #Gastrointestinal
Mineral #Vitamin #Duodenum ... #Ileum #Jejunum ... #Location #Map
Gastrointestinal tract absorption. 

#Absorption #Nutrient #Mineral #Vitamin #Duodenum #Ileum #Jejunum #Location #Map #Gastrointestinal #Diagnosis #ShortGut #SBS
Mineral #Vitamin #Duodenum ... #Ileum #Jejunum ... #Location #Map
Nutrient Absorption After Gastric Bypass Surgery

#Diagnosis #Absorption #Nutrient #Mineral #Vitamin #Gastric #Bypass #Duodenum #Ileum #Jejunum #Location
Gastric #Bypass #Duodenum ... #Ileum #Jejunum ... #Location #Map
Black and Bloody Stools - Melena and Hematochezia
Melena - Refers to passage of black, tarry (sticky
stomach, or duodenum ... originates in the jejunum ... frequently from the jejunum ... also cause red ... #Differential #Causes
Mechanical Bowel Obstruction and Ileus - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Ileus: Functional bowel "blockage", no peristalsis
Mechanical Obstruction:
Abdominal Pain: may ... percussion • Nausea ... vomiting (worse with duodenal ... or jejunal obstruction
Annular pancreas is a morphological anomaly which can cause duodenal obstruction. This condition is important to
anomaly which can cause ... duodenal obstruction ... the 2nd part of duodenum ... Associated duodenal ... may also be seen
Causes of High-anion Gap and Non-anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis
Causes of High-anion Gap Acidosis:
 • Lactic acidosis
Causes of High-anion ... Causes of High-anion ... and chronic) Causes ... Ureterosigmoidostomy, jejunal ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Epidemiology: • 1-2 cases ... Campylobacter jejuni ... Muscle Weakness: May
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Incidence: 1 to 2 cases ... Campylobacter jejuni ... MRI - Spinal MRI may ... contraindicated in GBS and may
Soil Related Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Mechanism Of Infection:
 • Wound
 • GI: Ingestion, MUD, Contaminated
• Pathogens may ... Campylobacter jejuni ... endemic fungi cause