This document provides information on jaundice, including:
1. It classifies jaundice as normal, hemolytic, hepatitic, or obstructive based on bilirubin levels and the underlying cause.
2. It describes the clinical signs of jaundice including skin discoloration and notes that pruritus indicates obstructive jaundice.
3. It outlines the diagnostic approach to a patient with jaundice including history, physical exam, lab tests, and imaging modalities like ultrasound, MRCP, and ERCP.
2. Jaundice – Classification
Normal Serum Bilirubin (SB) is 0.3 to 1.0 mg%
Jaundice is increased levels of SB > 1.0 mg%
Over production of Bilirubin (Hemolytic)
From hemolysis of RBC
Impaired hepatic function (Hepatitic)
Hepatocellular dysfunction in handling bilirubin
Uptake, Metabolism and Excretion of bilirubin
Obstruction to bile flow (Obstructive)
Intrahepatic cholestasis
Extrahepatic Obstruction (Surgical Jaundice)
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3. Clinical Aspects of
Jaundice
Clinically detectable if SB is >3 mg%
With edema and dark skin – Jaundice is masked
What is special about the sclera ? – Rich Elastin
Darkening of the urine – Differential Diagnosis
Skin discoloration – Yellowish, - Carotinemia – Eyes N
Mucosa – hard palate (in dark skinned)
Greenish hue of skin and sclera - due Biliverdin – indicates
long standing jaundice ( CA head pancreas )
Generalized Pruritus – Obstructive Jaundice – Why ?
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4. Clinical History – Imp clues
Duration of jaundice – Acute / Chronic
Abdominal pain v/s painless jaundice
Fever – Viral / bacteria /sepsis
Scraches-Pruritus - obstructive
Appetite – Hepatocellular / Malignancy
Weight loss – Malignancy
Colour of stools –chalky white –obstructive
Family history – Hemolytic – Inherited dis.
H/o transfusion
Alcohol abuse, Medications – INH, EM, Largactil
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5. Coloured Urine – Differ.
Diagnosis
Bilirubin in urine due to Jaundice (CB)
Concentrated urine in dehydration
Sulfasalazine use – for Ulcerative colitis
Rifampicin, Pyridium and Thiamine use
Red urine – Porphyria,
Hemoglobin & Myoglobinuria, Hematuria
Melanin excretion from Melanoma-black
food
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6. Fate of RBC
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• RBC life span in blood stream is 90-120 days
• Old RBCs are phagocytosed and/or lysed
• Lysis occurs extravascularly in the RE system
subsequent to RBC phagocytosis
• Intravascular Hemolysis of young RBC
• This is due to hemolytic diseases of RBC
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7. E V Pathway for RBC
Scavanging
Liver, Spleen &
Bone marrow
Hemoglobin
Globin
Amino acids
Amino acid pool
Heme Bilirubin
Fe2+
Excreted
Phagocytosis & Lysis
Through Liver
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10. How to clinically evaluate the patient ?
What tests will help us in D.D ?
What imaging modalities will be useful ?
How to monitor the progress ?
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ALGORITHMIC APPROACH FOR
JAUNDICE
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15. What imaging we need
• Ultrasonography – 98% Sp, 90% Sen.
• For GB stones USG better than CT
• For duct stones –only 40% seen in USG
• PTC – Extrahepatic obstr. – drainage
• ERCP – Distal biliary obstruction Dx.Rx.
• MRCP – Most useful for duct stones
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16. Post hepatic Obstructive Jaundice
• Painful v/s painless
• Obstruction can be
– Intra Luminal -(stone), hydatit cysts worms
– Luminal- Stricture (benign v/s
cholangiocarcinoma), periampulary ca
– Klatskin tumor
– Extra luminal pancreatic cancer,. lymph nodes,
choledocal cyst
• Investigate & treat with
– Radiology (US, CT, MRCP)
– ERCP / PTC
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17. • A Klatskin tumor (or hilar
cholangiocarcinoma) is a
cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the
biliary tree) occurring at the
confluence of the right and left
hepatic bile ducts. It is named after
Dr. Gerald Klatskin, an American
physician working at Yale.
21. Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) with stricture
due to cholangiocarcinoma. Courtesy of Robert L.
Carithers, Jr., M.D.
Retrograde Cholangiogram -
ERCP
22. Irregular dilation of intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts.
Courtesy of Charles Rohrmann, M.D.
Retrograde Cholangiogram -
ERCP
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PRE-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT
OF OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE
1. HIGH INTAKE OF GLUCOSE (BUILD
UP LIVER GLYCOGEN STORE)
2. VITAMIN K (FAT SOLUBLE), 10mg IV
OR IM
3. ANTIBIOTICS (BROAD SPECTURUM)
4. HYDRATION (PREVENT RENAL
FAILURE) (5% DEXTROSE TO ENSURE
30 ml/HOUR URINE FLOW)
5. DIURESIS – MANNITOL- 200ML
REGIMEN
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SURGICAL PROCDURES
1. ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY (DORMIA BASKET,
BALLOON CATHETER)(STENT TO RELIEVE
SYMPTOMS)
2. PERCUTANEOUS REMOVAL OF STONES BY
BURHENNE METHOD (T- TUBE LEFT FOR SIX
WEEKS AND THEN REMOVED, DILATION OF THE
MATURE TRACT, STEERABLE CATHETER, AND
THEN STONE BASKET)
3. PERCUTANEOUS BILIARY DRAINAGE (PTC), IN
THE VERY ILL
4. SUPRADUODENAL CHOLEDOCHOTOMY WITH
OR WITH OUT TRANSDUODENAL
SPHINCTEROTOMY OR
CHOLEDOCHODUODENOSTOMY
5. STENTING
32. • Physical examination findings typically
include jaundice and right upper
quadrant tenderness.
• Charcot's triad is a set of three common
findings in cholangitis: abdominal pain,
jaundice, and fever.