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RLQ ABDOMINAL PAIN
Reshma B. Patel Scott Q. Nguyen, MD
Randolph Steinhagen, MDCelia M. Divino, MD
Department of SurgeryMount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
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Mr. X
A 25 year-old male presents with a 1 month history of nausea, intermittent vomiting right-sided abdominal pain, bloating, episodic diarrhea, fatigue, and weight loss.
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History
What other information would be helpful?
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History, Mr.XHistory, Mr.X
• Characterization of symptoms
• Temporal sequence• Alleviating /
Exacerbating factors:
• Pertinent PMH, ROS, MEDS.
• Relevant family hx.• Associated signs and
symptoms
Consider the Following
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History
• Pain:• Quality: Cramping and right sided• Radiation: None• Severity: 5/10• Timing: Intermittent, coming in waves, and worse after eating.
• Nausea: • intermittent w/ occasional vomiting for past month. Feels
persistently bloated and distended. Appetite decreased. Hasn’t been able to eat much in past week.
• Diarrhea: • Episodic watery and non-bloody.
• Weight Loss:• 10 lbs over last month. Appetite decreased. Hasn’t been able to eat much in
past week.
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History
• PMH: Patient states that he has had bouts of diarrhea for years and was previously diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome.
• PSH: Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy 2000• Meds: None• Family Hx: Grandfather died from colon cancer• Social Hx: No tobacco, alcohol, or drug use.
Traveled to Mexico 2 months ago
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Differential Diagnosis
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome• Partial Small Bowel Obstruction
• Appendicitis• Diverticulitis
• Infectious diarrhea (Salmonella,Shigella,Campylobacter, TB)• Parasitic infection (amebic infection)
• Celiac Sprue• Ulcerative Colitis• Crohn’s Disease
• Pseudomembranous Colitis • Intestinal Lymphoma
• GI Malignancy• Mesenteric Adenitis
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Physical Exam
• Vitals-Temp: 39 C BP: 105/65 HR: 100 RR:15
• Gen: Thin appearing male.
• Cardiac: S1,S2. RRR. No murmurs, gallops, or rubs
• Lungs: CTAB. No wheezes, rales, or rhonchi
• Abdomen: Soft, somewhat distended, mildly tender to palpation worse in the
right lower quadrant. Palpable mass in right lower quadrant. Bowel sounds
hyperactive. No organomegaly. No guarding or rebound.
• Rectal: Sphincter tone normal. Perirectal erythema and tenderness. Anal fissure
noted at 3 o’clock position. Heme positive.
• Musculoskeletal: Normal range of motion in all four extremities.
• Extremities: No erythema or edema.
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Review of Systems
Non-contributory except for:
• Gen: fever, fatigue, and weakness x 1 month; 10 lb weight loss over last month
• GI: Decreased appetite with nausea for 1 month. Denies vomiting. Worsening watery, non-bloody diarrhea for 1 month.
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Laboratory
What tests should you order?
More importantly………why?
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Labs
• CBC
• Chem 7
• UA: Wnl• FOBT: Positive• Stool O & P: Negative
11
11
35
400
135
3.4
110
23
30
1.0104
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Labs: Significance?
• Mild Leukocytosis : ? inflammatory process
• Electrolytes: hypokalemia, elevated bun/creatinine volume depletion and potassium loss
• Anemia and +fobt: blood loss
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What’s the differential diagnosis?
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Differential Diagnosis
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Appendicitis
• Diverticulitis
• Partial Small Bowel Obstruction
• Infectious diarrhea (Salmonella,Shigella,Campylobacter, TB)
• Parasitic infection (amebic infection)
• Celiac Sprue
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Crohn’s Disease
• Pseudomembranous Colitis
• Intestinal Lymphoma
• GI Malignancy
• Mesenteric Adenitis
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Acute Management/Interventions
• Hydration / Fluid resuscitation
• Correct electrolyte imbalances
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Imaging:Obstructive Series
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Imaging: Obstructive Series
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Imaging: Obstructive Series
Your interpretation?
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Imaging: Obstructive Series
• No free air under the diaphragm
• Few dilated loops of small bowel with air fluid levels in the Left abdomen
• Some air noted in colon
• Consistent with partial small bowel obstruction
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What test next?
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Imaging: Small Bowel Series
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Small bowel series: Interpretation
Narrowing of the terminal ileum with multiple strictures. Mass at RLQ pushing remaining
small bowel aside.
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Colonoscopy
• Colonic mucosa normal appearing
• Difficultly traversing the ileocecal valve
• Terminal ileum beefy and red with linear ulcerations adjacent to normal appearing mucosa with a cobblestone appearance
• Biopsies taken
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Biopsy Results
• Inflammation with neutrophilic infiltration into epithelial layer and accumulation into crypts forming crypt abscesses
• Scattered lymphoid aggregates throughout the tissue layers
• Non-caseating granulomas• Ulceration • Chronic mucosal damage with architectural distortion
and atrophy
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What’s the Diagnosis?
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Crohn’s Disease
• The first line treatment for Crohn’s Disease is medical therapy
Asymptomatic or Minimally Symptomatic Disease:
• 5-ASA compounds (sulfasalzine, mesalamine): topically affects bowel in reducing inflammation
• Antibiotics: ciprofloxacin and metronidazole
Moderate to Severe Disease• Corticosteroids: potent anti-inflammatory agent for refractory cases
and acute flares• Immunomodulators: (azathioprine, methotrexate, infliximab)
modulate immune system / immune cells active in inflammatory response
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When is surgical intervention warranted?
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Surgical Indications
• Stricture• Fistula• Abscess• Carcinoma• Failed medical therapy
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Crohn’s Disease
Creeping fat onto antimesenteric border of inflammed, thickened small bowel
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Specimen
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Surgical Technique
• Creeping fat
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Crohn’s Features
Cobblestoning
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis• Chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract• Incidence and prevalence vary with geographic location; more
common within Jewish population• Higher rates for whites in northern Europe and North America• Incidence for each is 5 per 100,000• Prevalence for each is 50 per 100,000• Incidence equal in men and women• Bimodal age distribution: peak age onset between15-25yrs;
second peak 55-65yrs old
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Crohn’s Disease: Etiology & Pathogenesis
• Family history key risk factor• Infiltration of lamina propria by lymphocytes,
macrophages, and other inflammatory cells• Inability to down regulate chronic inflammation of
lamina propria triggered by exposure to antigens• Epithelial injury due to reactive oxygen species
and cytokines
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Crohn’s Disease Ulcerative Colitis
Transmural involvement Mucosal Disease
Segmental “skip lesions” Diffuse involvement of entire colon
Rectal involvement rare Rectum always involved
Thickened bowel wall with “creeping fat”
Normal bowel all thickness
Small bowel commonly effected Small bowel not effected except with backwash ileitis
Cobblestoning Pseudopolyps
Narrow, deeply penetrating ulcers Shallow, wide ulcers
Granulomas common Granulomas rare
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Crohn’s Disease: Extraintestinal Manifestations
• Apthous ulcers
• Cholelithiasis
• Arthritis
• Skin lesions: erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum
• Ocular lesions: episcleritis, uveitis
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References
• ACS Surgery Principles and Practice
• Feldman: Sleisenger & Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 8th edition 2006.
• Goldman:Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. 22nd edition 2004.
• Kumar et. al. Robbin’s Basic Pathology. 7th edition 2003
• Lawrence, P. Essentials of General Surgery. 3rd edition 2000.
• Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 17th edition 2004.
• Zimmer, M. Maingot’s Abdominal Operations. 11th edition, 2004.
• **Pictures courtesy of Dr. R. Steinhagen
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