Gastroenterology & Hepatology — Practice

Question 1

Aspartate transaminase is 200 and alanine transaminase is 80. What does this suggest?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 2

Which feature favours Crohn disease over ulcerative colitis?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 3

Ascitic fluid from a cirrhotic patient shows 380 neutrophils per cubic millimetre with a sterile culture. What is the correct action?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 4

A patient reports food sticking, affecting both solids and liquids equally since symptoms began. What does this indicate?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 5

Which statement about acute pancreatitis management is correct?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 6

A patient with unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia has a marked fall in bilirubin after phenobarbitone. What is the diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 7

Why does the transplant allocation score exclude ascites and encephalopathy, which the Child-Pugh score includes?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 8

A patient after terminal ileal resection develops megaloblastic anaemia and steatorrhoea with a normal duodenal biopsy. What explains both findings?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 9

A patient with ulcerative colitis in remission has progressive cholestatic liver tests. What is the likely diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

B

Practice — Gastroenterology & Hepatology