ILOs:
- Describe the common clinical presentations of pancreatico-biliary disease
- Discuss how to assess and investigate the patients with pancreatico-biliary disease
- Suggest and discuss the optimum management of patients with these disorders
- Describe basic gross and microscopic structure and anatomical relationships between the extrahepatic bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas
- List the different kinds of gallstones, their chief constituents, and risk factors or conditions predisposing to their formation
- Discuss the contribution of gallstones to acute and chronic cholecystitis, obstructive jaundice, acute pancreatitis and ascending cholangitis; and outline the main features and consequences of these conditions
- Understand the importance of (often painless) obstructive jaundice as a presentation of carcinoma of the extrahepatic bile ducts, head Ampulla of Vater
- Appreciate the effects of duct obstruction on the exocrine pancreas in e.g. cystic fibrosis and chronic pancreatitis
- List the chief syndromes associated with hormone secretion by pancreatic endocrine tumours, and relate these syndromes to the hormones responsible
- Clinical Case Presentation - Gall Stones
- Outline the anatomy of the biliary system
- Outline the different types of gallstones
- What are the constituents of bile?
- Why can bile become lithogenic (stone forming)?
- Clinical Case Presentation - Biliary Stones
- What are the treatments and investigations for gall stones?
- Clinical Case Presentation - Acute Pancreatitis
- What are the causes of acute pancreatitis?