GASTROENTEROLOGY TOPICS

1️⃣ OESOPHAGUS

A. Dysphagia Approach

B. Structural Disorders

  • GORD / NERD
  • Barrett’s oesophagus
  • Peptic strictures
  • Schatzki ring
  • Oesophageal cancer 

C. Motility Disorders

  • Achalasia
  • Diffuse oesophageal spasm
  • Hypercontractile (Jackhammer) oesophagus
  • Scleroderma oesophagus

D. Infective Oesophagitis

  • Candida
  • CMV
  • HSV

 

2️⃣ STOMACH & DUODENUM

A. Dyspepsia

B. Peptic Ulcer Disease

  • H. pylori
  • NSAIDs
  • Zollinger–Ellison syndrome

C. Upper GI Bleed

D. Gastric Cancer

 

3️⃣ SMALL INTESTINE

A. Malabsorption

  • Coeliac disease
  • Tropical sprue
  • Whipple disease
  • Pancreatic insufficiency

B. Coeliac Disease

C. Short Bowel Syndrome

 

4️⃣ INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE 

A. Ulcerative Colitis

B. Crohn’s Disease

 

5️⃣ LARGE INTESTINE

A.  Diarrhoea 

  • Acute Diarrhoea
  • Chronic diarrhoea 

B. Irritable Bowel Syndrome 

C. Colorectal Cancer

D. Diverticular Disease

 

6️⃣ LIVER 

A. Jaundice Approach

B. Acute Liver Failure

C. Chronic Liver Disease

D. Portal Hypertension

  • Varices
  • Ascites
  • Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
  • Hepatorenal syndrome

E. Autoimmune Liver Disease

  • Autoimmune hepatitis
  • Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
  • Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

F. Viral Hepatitis

  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis D

G. NAFLD 

H. NASH

 

7️⃣ PANCREAS

A. Acute Pancreatitis

B. Chronic Pancreatitis

C. Pancreatic Cancer

 

 

8️⃣ BILIARY SYSTEM

A. Gallstones

  • Cholelithiasis
  • Acute cholecystitis

B. Cholangitis

 

9️⃣ GI INFECTIONS

  • C. difficile
  • Amoebiasis
  • Giardiasis
  • Tubercular ileocaecal disease
  • Traveller’s diarrhoea

 

🔟 GI ONCOLOGY

  • Oesophageal carcinoma
  • Gastric carcinoma
  • Colorectal carcinoma
  • HCC
  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Neuroendocrine tumours