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Gastroesophageal varices - Answers - ✔✔Will present with a history of alcoholism with
hematemesis and profound anemia
Esophageal varices - Answers - ✔✔Are associated with portal hypertension
Rupture of esophageal varices - Answers - ✔✔Has a high mortality rate
Dumping syndrome - Answers - ✔✔Is seen after gastric bypass surgery
Stomatitis - Answers - ✔✔May be caused by chemotherapy
H. pylori - Answers - ✔✔Is a cause for chronic gastritis
Necrotizing enterocolitis - Answers - ✔✔Occurs in premature infants
Ulcerative colitis - Answers - ✔✔Is associated with bloody diarrhea
Colon cancer - Answers - ✔✔Has a warning sign of change in bowel habits
Celiac sprue (autoimmune) - Answers - ✔✔Is a malabsorptive disorder from a reaction
to gluten containing foods
Barrett esophagus - Answers - ✔✔Is a preneoplastic condition
Hiatal hernia - Answers - ✔✔Will present with heartburn
Duodenal ulcer - Answers - ✔✔Can present with epigastric pain relieved by food
Appendicitis - Answers - ✔✔Presents with acute right lower quadrant pain associated
with rebound tenderness and systemic signs of inflammation
Gallstones - Answers - ✔✔Are more common in women, 4Fs (fatty, forty, female,
fertile)
Untreated acute cholecystitis - Answers - ✔✔May lead to gangrene of the gallbladder
wall
Chronic cholecystitis - Answers - ✔✔Can lead to biliary sepsis, calcified gallbladder,
and porcelain gallbladder