Lower GI & Bowel Disease

1.A young male with high risk behaviour had loss of weight, chronic diarrhea and chronic cough. Answer the following:  What is your diagnosis  What are the other causes of this condition  How will you investigate this patient  How will you manage

1.Irritable bowel syndrome

2.Inflammatory bowel diseases

1.Name some extra intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease

2.Causes of chronic diarrhoea

3.Symptoms of ulcerative colitis

4.Clinical criteria of irritable bowel syndrome

5.Name three causes of chronic diarrhoea

6.Organisms causing acute diarrhoea

7.List four extra intestinal manifestations of ulcerative colitis

8.Crohn’s disease

9.Coeliac disease

10.Drugs used in the management of inflammatory bowel disease

11.Differences between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

1.Assertion (A): The loose stools lasting for more than 4 weeks is chronic diarrhea Reason (R): The most common cause is noninfectious in origin, due to GIT secretary abnormality

• a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
• b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
• c) A is true
• d) A is false but R is true