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Health Maintenance Checklist for Adult IBD Patients

Vaccine Preventable Diseases: Influenza (inactive), Pneumococcal PCV13, Pneumococcal PPSV23, Tdap,
Vaccine Preventable Diseases ... , Skin screen, Colonoscopy ... #inflammatory #bowel ... #disease #Checklist ... #hcm #gastroenterology
Constipation Management Algorithm
What do you mean by constipation?
 - Infrequent bowel movements, difficult defecation or both?
- Infrequent bowel ... - How many bowel ... many days of no bowel ... Linaclotide • Rectal ... Management #Algorithm #gastroenterology
Mayo UC Endoscopic Classification
 • Score = 0 (normal or inactive disease) - Normal vascular pattern
normal or inactive disease ... Score = 1 (mild disease ... = 2 (moderate disease ... ulcerative #colitis #gastroenterology ... #colonoscopy
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Workup Summary
Use a positive diagnostic strategy with minimal testing.
Irritable Bowel ... risk • Routine colonoscopy ... Rule out celiac disease ... disease w/ fecal ... Diagnosis #workup #gastroenterology
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Irritable bowel ... Systemic disease ... occult blood - Colonoscopy ... biopsy - Small bowel ... weight: Irritable bowel
Lower GI Bleed - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Structural:
 - Diverticulosis
 - Post-Polypectomy Bleeding
 - Hemorrhoids
 - Polyps
- Colonic and Rectal ... Angiodysplasia, Colonic or rectal ... congenital/systemic disease ... Differential #Diagnosis #gastroenterology
IBD Mimics
Infectious - Always RULE OUT infection (CMV, C. diff esp.) obtain travel & exposures history:
SROS (solitary rectal ... IBS (irritable bowel ... #inflammatroy #bowel ... #disease #mimics ... differential #diagnosis #gastroenterology
Extraintestinal manifestations of Crohn’s disease
Dermatological: Aphthous stomatitis, Erythema nodosum, Psoriasis, Pyoderma gangrenosum
Vascular: Portal hypertension, Thromboembolism, Thrombosis,
manifestations of Crohn’s disease ... cancer, Small-bowel ... Metabolic bone disease ... Extraintestinal #Crohns #Disease ... IBD #diagnosis #gastroenterology
Causes of Small Bowel Bleeding - Differential Diagnosis
Common Causes:
 • Under age 40 years: Inflammatory Bowel
Causes of Small Bowel ... : Inflammatory Bowel ... Disease, Dieulafoy's ... purpura, Small bowel ... Diagnosis #Causes #gastroenterology
Additional Modalities for Workup of GI Bleed (Other than EGD + Colonoscopy)

Pill endoscopy
 • Able to
Other than EGD + Colonoscopy ... diseases • Contraindicated ... in small-bowel ... disease Deep Enteroscopy ... GIBleed #management #gastroenterology