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Bilarysurg
Classification:
GAIIStOMeS
Risk Factors: CHOLESTEROL vs. PIGMENT
Cholesterol: -80% cholesterol composition. 4 F's:
Yellow, hard. Female
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Fourty
Mixed:25-80% cholesterol composition. Fat
mostcommon gallstone type. Fertile
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Pigment:25% cholesterol composition.
Black, Crumbly.
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Radio-opaque.
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Associated with haemolytic anaemia.



Presentations:


Biliary Colic:
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gallstone impaction at neck of gallbladder.
BILE TREE
elicits colicky pain when eating fatty foods,
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as gallbladder contracts around stones.
-no fever, but can progress into cholecystitis.

·Cholecystitis:gallstones occlude cystic duct,
inflammation.
causing gallbladder

Constant RUD pain.
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Fever, due to infection. Symptoms:
secondary
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No jaundice as bile can still
travel from liver through CBD. Colicky pain:sharp that comes and goes,
RUQ pain
-Murphy's sign tive. and is exacerbated
by eating fatty foods. Radiates back.


Complications:gallbladder Post-Hepatic Jaundice:occurs only in Cholangitis,
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empyema, ischaemia, perforation. CBD gallstone occludes bile flow completely,
where

and billirubin. accumilates.

Ascending Cholangitis:
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gallstones occlude CBD, Steatorrhoea:pale, difficult to flush stool,

causing CBD inflammation. due to fat indigestion and lack of Stercobilin.
can progress to
septic shock. Accompanied by Marine.
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Can cause Pancreatitis.
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Dark Urine:obstruction accumilates billirubin, and is
-Charcot's triad ofsymptoms: instead of stool
excreted
through urine as Urobilinogen.
1. RUQ pain 2. Fever 3. Jaundice ·
Steatorrhoea+ Dark Urine Obstructive Jaundice.
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-Murphy's sign-tive
Murphy's Signttire:pain RUQpalpation on inspiration.
on


Reynold's Pentad
Biliary sepsis, tive in
cholecystitis, five in Cholangitis.
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progression ofascending cholangitis
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Charcot's triad + shock/confusion
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