Form and Function
These are the three sections of the pancreatic organ.
What is head, body, and tail?
This is an inflammatory condition of the organ characterized clinically by abdominal pain and elevated serum enzyme levels and, BTW, is the leading gastrointestinal cause of hospitalization in the United States
What is acute pancreatitis?
Th normal count for white blood cells (WBC's).
What is 4500-10, 000?
These labs are elevated if there is enzyme release from damaged liver cells.
What is ALT and AST?
This duct collects bile from two smaller ducts and conducts it to the gallbladder, where it is then excreted into the duodenum.
What is the "Common Hepatic Duct"?
Often associated with obstruction due to "stones", this may also be caused by bacterial invasion.
What is acute cholecystitis?
The second and third Hepatitis B vaccine is given.
What is one and six months respectively after the first vaccine?
Characterized by an increase in HR, decreased BP, pallor, and changed mental status associated with rapid loss or redistribution of intravascular fluid volume.
What is "Shock"?
The primary function of this pear-shaped hollow organ is to store and concentrate bile.
What is the gallbladder?
"Fluffy", Forty, Female, Fertile, and Fair
What are often cited as five risk factors for acute cholecystitis? There inconclusive research-based correlation between these characteristics and the incidence of gallbladder disease suggesting that family history be substituted for "40".
Derived from the ancient Greek, kystis, meaning a bag or a closed sac.
What is bladder?
Recommended age for bone marrow transplant for cure in aplastic anemia.
What is <60 years?
Enlarged blood vessels in the stomach and esophagus due to slowed blood flow through the portal veins causing back up.
What are varices?
Of these two pancreatic functions, one secretes enzymes for digestion of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, while the other produces glucagon and insulin.
What are exocrine and endocrine?
Gallbladder pain is often referred to this area due to the shared afferent nerve signals of the C4 dermatome.
What is the right shoulder?
A procedure literally translated as "the rubbing of stones".
What is lithotripsy.
Approximate amount of blood removed during phlebotomy in the treatment of polycythemia.
What is 500 ml?
This accumulation of bile salts in the skin and sclera, associated with obstruction of bile flow into the duodenum, is often accompanied by the itch of pruritus.
What is jaundice?
This muscle controls the introduction of bile and pancreatic secretions from the "ampulla of Vater" into the duodenum, as well as preventing the entry of duodenal contents into the ampulla.
What is the "Sphincter of Oddi"?
This cavity, filled with necrotic products and liquid secretions, may resolve within weeks or perforate causing peritonitis.
What is a pseudocyst?
From the latin, "calx", literally meaning a "small pebble as used on an abacus" to describe a concretion in the gallbladder, or the name applied to this advanced branch of mathematics.
What is calculus?
Normal range of Hgb for females.
What is 12-16?
Large protein responsible for holding fluid in the vascular space.
What is albumin?