L1: Jaundice

• Describe and explain the pathogenesis, etiology, clinical features and complications of each of the following conditions:
• Prehepatic
  • Hemolysis
  • Transfusion reaction
• Hepatic
  • Infectious Hepatitis
  • Cirrhosis
  • Drugs
  • Alcohol
• Post-hepatic
  • Intraluminal
    • Stones
    • Polyps
  • Intramural
    • Benign biliary stricture (ischemic, Mirizzi’s syndrome, iatrogenic, inflammatory, sclerosing cholangitis)
    • Primary cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)
  • Extramural
    • Secondary carcinoma (porta hepatic LN metastasis)
    • Carcinoma in the head of pancreas
    • Chronic pancreatitis