GiT Updates and More

✅Waffle-like mucosa of the stomach ⚠️ Characteristic of linitis plastica, an advanced form of adenocarcinoma 💡 Important to recognise as biopsies are usually normal (due to submucosal infiltration)

Hemochromatosis VS Wilson's disease

Medication associated with diahrrea

Elevated amylase is not always due to pancreatitis. Here are some other causes

Antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical features and diagnostic criteria

ESGE guidelines for lower Gi bleeding

Parapneumonic effusion and empyema

Liver metastases

Cold snare polypectomy

Common sites of varices in portal hypertension

💡unusual ulcer was seen in the distal duodenum in a 86 year old with anaemia . The striped appearance is actually the Dacron mesh from a previous AAA repair, resulting in an imminent aortoenteric fistula. ✅Once seen, never forgotten! In a patient with UGI bleed, ask about AAA repair, This is because: ✳️ Aortoenteric fistulas usually >D3 ✳️ Most OGDs end in D2 ✳️ Endoscopists will try to intubate distal duodenum if they know about it.

📌 Alcoholic hepatitis: ✅ diagnosis ✅ management 💊 new tested strategies

Hemochromatosis