Term
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Definition
| Patient must be fasting for? |
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Term
| Distended, filled with biled, making it anechoic with echogenic walls |
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Definition
| Gallbladder sonographicaly looks? |
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Term
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Definition
- reservoir for bile
- stored there until it's needed to aid in digestion
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Term
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Definition
| Released into the blood and the GB contracts sending bile out into the digestive system |
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Term
| Located on posterior surface of right lobe of liver, but location may vary |
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Definition
| Where is gallbladder located? |
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Term
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Definition
Bile enters and leaves the GB
through this duct |
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Term
| Gb changes position as pt changes psition |
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Definition
| Does the GB change position? |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Right and left hepatic ducts |
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Definition
| Where does the bile drain from the liver? |
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Term
Porta hepatis
&
common hepatic duct |
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Definition
| The rt. and lt. hepatic ducts leave the liver proximal to what? and unite to form what? |
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Term
common hepatic duct
&
Cystic duct |
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Definition
| What forms the common bile duct? |
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Term
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Definition
| Bile from the liver reaches the GB through what? |
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Term
| Rt. and Lt. hepatic ducts |
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Definition
| Considered intrahepatic ducts b/c they are completely enclosed by liver tissue |
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Term
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Definition
| Any dilation of the gallbladder |
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Term
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Definition
| Gallbladder shouldnt measure more than? |
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Term
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Definition
- bottom of GB
- location in relation to gravity
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Term
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Definition
| Part of gallbladder that is closest to gravitly |
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Term
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Definition
| Bordered posteriorly by bowel |
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Term
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Definition
Lies to right of the porta hepatis |
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Term
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Definition
| Normal variant of neck is a small posterior pouch |
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Term
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Definition
- Connects the GB to the Common hepatic duct
- common hepatic duct is then called the common bile duct
- forms neck of GB
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Term
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Definition
Series of folds in cystic duct that holds
duct open |
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Term
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Definition
- Anterior to the portal vein
- enters the duodenum posterior to the pancreatic head along with the duct from the pancreas at the ampulla of vater and sphincter of oddi
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Term
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Definition
| Gallbladder wall measurements |
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Term
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Definition
| Normal measurements of common hepatic duct and common bile duct |
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Term
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Definition
| Normal measurements of bile ducts after cholecystectomy |
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Term
| CBD may be up to 1mm in diameter larger |
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Definition
normal measurements of CBD
over 50 years of age |
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Term
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Definition
| Supplies the gallbladder and parts of the liver |
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Term
Hepatic artery
&
Cystic artery |
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Definition
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Term
- Inner layer - mucosa
- Middle layer - fibromuscular
- Outer layer - serous
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Variations of gallbladder |
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Term
- Oral cholecystogram
- Cholecystokinin
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| a contrast material is ingested by the patient the night before the test. Information on structure and function of the gallbladder is obtained |
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Term
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Definition
| hormone secreted into the blood. Stimulates contraction of the gallbladder |
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Term
Nuclear Medicine
(HIDA SCAN) |
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Definition
| Small amount of radiopharmaceutical is injected. It passes through the blood stream to the liver, then to the biliary system and evenually into the duodenum. Functional info is the primary focus of this test. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cross sectional images of the biliary system ar obtained. Structional info is th purpose. |
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Term
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Definition
- Breakdown product of hemoglobin in tired red blood cells
- Secretion of bilirubin into the gut via the biliary tree
- The bilirubin molecules become attached to albumin in the blood and are transported to the liver
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Term
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Definition
- Measurement of concentration of bilirubin in the blood is a standard lab test for hepatocellular disease as well as hepatobiliary disease
- direct and in-direct
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Term
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Definition
| Conjugated, circulated freely in the blood, elecates usually as a result of obstructive jaundice |
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Term
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Definition
| Unconjugated, protein bound in the serum; elevation due to increased RBC destruction |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
1. excessive amount of RBC destruction
2. malfunction of liver cells
3. blockage of the ducts leading from the cells |
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Definition
Production cycle can be disrupted
in three ways: |
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Term
| almost always end in -ASE |
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Definition
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Term
- AST
- Aspartase aminotransferase (SGOT)
- ALT
- Alanine aminotransterase (SGPT)
- Alk Phos
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Definition
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