2. Definition
• Jaundice – Yellowish discoloration of skin, mucus membranes and
conjunctiva resulting from widespread tissue deposition of the
pigmented metabolite bilirubin
• Clinically >3mg/dl
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3. Haemoglobin and
other
haemoproteins
Bilirubin
BrG Canalicular membrane
OATP MRP3
Bilirubin Albumin
Albumin
Bile
BrG Urine
B-UGT
MRP2
OATP – Organic anion transporter
MRP – Multidrug resistant associated protein
UGT – Uridine diphosphate - glucurynyl transferase
BrG – Bilirubin glucuronides
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5. Cholestasis
• Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia due to :
i. Impaired bile formation (hepatocytes)
ii. Impaired bile flow (bile duct/ductules)
• Consequences –
Secondary liver damage
i. Bile acid induced hepatocyte injury
ii. Secondary biliary cirrhosis
Failure of substances secreted in bile to reach intestine
i. Bile acid deficiency in gut
ii. Fat malabsorbtion/fat-solube vitamin malabsorbtion
7. Clinically
• Pruritus
• Fatigue
• Xanthomas
• Hepatic
osteodystrophy
• Pale stools or
steatorrhea
• Evidence of fat
soluble vitamin
deficiency
• Enlarged liver with a
firm smooth non
tender edge
Histologically
• Bile plugs
• Feathery
degeneration of
hepatocytes
• Small bile duct
destruction
• Peri cholangitis
• Portal oedema
• Bile lakes and infarcts
• Biliary cirrhosis
8. Jaundice
Painless – Periampullary
carcinoma
Cholangiocarcinoma
Painful – Ca gall bladder
Ca Pancreas
Cholangitis: stones,
parasites
• Intermittent Jaundice:
Choledocholithiasis, Periampullary
tumour,Duodenal diverticula ,Intra
biliary parasites
Haemobilia
• Persistent Jaundice
Onset, progression, history of prodrome
9. Pruritus
• Irritating sensation which arouses desire to scratch to get temporary
relief 1
• Present in 80 – 100 % patients with cholestatic jaundice 2
• 25 % have presenting symptom 3
• Bile salts – Histamine release – irritation of C fibres
• Marked in PBC, Cholestatic jaundice of pregnancy
• History – Severity (Disturbed Sleep, ADL)
1Arch Dermatol. 2003 Nov; 139(11):1475-8
2J Dtsch Dermatol Ges. 2013 Feb; 11(2):158-68.
3Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2003 Apr 1; 17(7):857-70.
ADL – Activities of daily life
10. Evaluation of Cholestatic Jaundice
Decide – Intrahepatic or extrahepatic
CLUES TO EXTRAHEPATIC
CHOLESTASIS
• Abdominal pain
• Palpable GB
• Upper abdominal mass
• Evidence of cholangitis
• H/O past biliary surgery
CLUES TO INTRAHEPATIC
CHOLESTASIS
• Prodromal- fever, malaise, nausea
• Pruritus, as in primary biliary
cirrhosis (PBC) and primary
sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
11. Extrahepatic causes of cholestatic jaundice
Benign
• Choledocholithiasis
• Post operative biliary
strictures
• Primary sclerosing
cholangitis
• Chronic pancreatitis
• AIDS cholangiopathy
• Mirizzi syndrome
• Parasitic disease
Malignant
• Cholangiocarcinoma
• Pancreatic cancer
• Ca GB
• Ampullary cancer
• Malignant
involvement of porta
lymph nodes
12. Intrahepatic causes of cholestatic jaundice
1) Viral hepatis
a. Fibrosing choleststic hepatitis – Hep B and C
b. Hep A, EBV and CMV
2) Alcoholic hepatitis
3) Drug toxicity
a. Pure cholestatic – Anabolic steroids and
contraceptives
b. Cholestatic hepatitis – Chlorpromazine,
erythromycin
c. Chronic cholestasis – Chlorpromazine and
proclhorprazine
4) Primary biliary cirrhosis
5) Primary sclerosing cholangitis
6) Vanishing bile duct syndrome
A. Chronic rejection of liver transplant
B. Sarcoidosis
C. Drugs
7) Non hepatobilary sepsis
8) Benign post operative cholestasis
9)Para neoplastic syndrome
10) Veno-occlusive disease
11) GVHD
12) Inherited
A.Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
B. Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
13) Cholestasis of pregnancy
14) Total parenteral nutrition
15) Infiltrative diseases
A. TB
B. Lymphoma
C. Amyloidosis
16) Infections
A. Malaria
B. Leptospirosis
13. Clinical History and causes of cholestasis
1. Pain – Duct stones, tumor or gall bladder disease
2. Arthralgia, myalgia predating jaundice – Hepatitis (Viral)
3. Fever and rigors – Cholangitis d/t duct stone or traumatic stricture (Charcot’s intermittent
biliary fever)
4. Contaminated food/ alcohol consumptions
5. H/O hepato – toxins – Drugs/Chemicals
6. Parenteral exposure – Blood transfusion, drug abuse, tattoos, sexual activity
7. H/O Pain and blood mixed stools (Ulcerative colitis) - ?PSC
8. Joint pain, alopecia , thyroid disorders, T1DM- Autoimmune hepatitis
9. Weight loss, loss of apetite – Malignancy
14. History
• Age , Sex, Occupation
• Jaundice – Onset, progressive or intermittent
• Pain – Location, radiation, fullness, palpable mass
• Pruritus – Generalised
• Associated symptoms – Anorexia, weight loss, fever
• Gastric stasis – Early satiety, vomiting, belching
• History of anaemia
• Previous malignancy
• Diabetes or diarrhoea of recent onset
19. History…cont
• Pain abdomen – Site
Nature
Severity
• Can you feel a lump?
• Pruritus
Pain Type
Biliary colic Steady, usually in the epigastrium and right upper
quadrant, increases over 15 minutes to 1 hour, plateaus
over next 6 hours then subsides
Pancreatic pain Dull aching, continuous, epigastrium radiating to the
back, relieved by leaning
Hepatomegaly Dull aching and dragging type of pain in the right
hypochondrium
20. History ….cont
• Malena
• History s/o malignancy
• History s/o autoimmune disorders
• Prodromal symptoms – Viral aetiology
• Fever – at onset – viral hepatitis
with rigors – cholangitis
low grade fever - neoplasm
21. Past history
• Recurrent jaundice – relapsing hepatitis
• Right upper quadrant surgery – Sticture
• Recurrent biliary colic – Cholelithiasis
• Hepatotoxic drugs
• Contact with jaundiced person
• Sexual history
22. Risk factors
1. Alcohol intake
2. Medications
3. Pregnancy
4. Sexual contact, drug abuse, needle punctures
5. ICU – Sepsis, shock, Total parenteral nutrition
6. After BM transplantation – Veno occlusive disease or GVHD
Family history
1. Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC)
2. Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC)
23. Family history
• Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC)
• Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
• Auto immune disorders
24. Personal history
• Bowel – Pale stools
Alteration in bowel habits
• Bladder
• Sleep – Pruritus disturbing sleep
Hepatic encephalopathy
25. Physical examination
1. Anemia – GI blood loss, nutritional deficiency, hypersplenism
2. Nails – Clubbing, shiny nails
3. Itch marks
4. Virchow’s node or sister mary joseph nodule – Abdominal malignancy
5. Jugular venous distension – Hepatic congestion
6. S/O Fat soluble vitamin deficiency
• Vit D (Osteomalacia, demineralized bone, kyphosis , fracture)
• Vit E (Cerebellar ataxia, posterior column dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy)
• Vit A (Night blindness, thick skin)
• Vit K (Easy bruisablity, gum bleeding)
6. S/O hepatic osteodystrophy – Loss of height, back pain, collapsed vertebra,
fracture of ribs with minimal trauma
26. GI system examination
•Oral cavity – Yellowish discoloration, oral thrush
•Hepatomegaly – Alcoholic liver disease, primary or
secondary hepatic neoplasm, infiltrative disease
•Hard and nodular liver – Metastatic malignancy
•Murphy’s sign – Cholecystitis
•Enlarged gall bladder – Non calculus biliary
obstruction
•Other abdominal masses – Primary Ca stomach or
colon
Courvoisier's law – Presence of a palpably enlarged gall
bladder which is non tender and accompanied with jaundice,
the cause is unlikely to be gallstones
27. • Ascites plus jaundice – Cirrhosis or malignancy with
peritoneal spread
• Rectal examination and sigmoidoscopy may indicate
carcinoma
• Marked splenomegaly – Cirrhosis + portal HTN or
lymphoproliferative disease
28. Suspected cholestatic jaundice
Cholestatic pattern:
Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
ALP high wrt ALT/AST
Ultrasound
Dilated ducts
(Extrahepatic
cholestasis)
Non dilated ducts
(Intrahepatic
cholestasis)
CT/ MRCP/ ERCP
Serologic testing
(AMA, viral hepatitis,
Liver
biopsy
AMA +
MRCP/Live
r Biopsy
AMA -
Harrison’s principles of Internal Medicine 19th edition
30. Choledocholithiasis
• Impaction and edema of the common bile duct
• Pain – Biliary colic or acute pancreatitis
• Rapid rise and decline (within 72 hours) in
aminotransferase
• Cholangitis – Fever with chills, abdominal pain, jaundice
(Charcot’s triad)
31. Benign strictures of the bile ducts
• Ask for history of gall bladder/biliary surgery
• PSC – Multiple or diffuse strictures
• Chronic alcoholic pancreatitis – A long stricture in the
intrapancreatic portion of the common bile duct
• Ampullary stenosis – Trauma during passage of a stone and AIDS
• Cholangitis – Frequent in benign than in malignant
32. Neoplastic obstruction
• Pancreatic carcinoma – commonest
• Other tumors – Cholangiocarcinoma,
ampulla tumors, Ca GB
• Klatskin tumor
Abdominal pain
Loss of appetite and
weight
Progressive deep and
painless jaundice
33. • Ampullary tumors show intermittent jaundice because of sloughing
and partial relief of the block
• Metastatic cancer , lymphoma may obstruct the bile duct
• Hepatocellular carcinoma ruptures into the biliary system throwing
tumor emboli obstructing common bile duct
• Compression by adjacent tumor/ peribiliary lymph nodes infiltrated
by lymphoma, or metastatic ca breast
• Direct infiltration by lymphoma
47. Abdominal examination
• Inspection – Flanks
Umbilicus
Superficial veins
Visible peristalsis
Scar mark
Scar marks of laparoscopic cholecystectomy
48. Palpation
Liver Gall bladder
• Start in RLQ
• Examining hand
parallel to the rectus
muscles
• Advance hand
superiorly with
expirations and
anticipate the liver
edge
• Striking the
forefinger on
inspiration
• Orient hand
perpendicular to the
costal margin feeling
from medial to lateral
below the right costal
margin (feels bulbous,
focally rounded mass
that moves downward
on inspiration)
• Murphy’s sign
(cholecystitis)
Lump can be palpable :
Gall bladder, Liver,
stomach lump,
pseudocyst pancreas
49.
50.
51.
52. Biliary Obstruction Liver disease
History Abdominal pain, fever, rigor,
prior biliary surgery, older
age
Anorexia, malaise, myalgias
(viral prodrome), blood
products receipt, exposure
to known hepatotoxin,
family history of liver disease
Physical examination Fever, abdominal
tenderness, palpable
abdominal mass, abdominal
surgical scar
Spider telangiectasias,
stigmata of portal
hypertension, asterixis
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54. Benjamin classification
(Obstructive Jaundice)
Type 1 Complete obstruction :
Tumours – pancreatic head carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma
Ligation of CBD
Type 2 Intermittent obstruction :
Choledocholithiasis, Periampullary tumour , Duodenal diverticula , Papilloma of
the bile duct, Intra biliary parasites, Haemobilia
Type 3 Chronic incomplete obstruction :
Strictures of the CBD, Congenital Traumatic Sclerosing cholangitis ,Post
radiotherapy , Stenosed biliary enteric anastomosis, Cystic fibrosis, Chronic
pancreatitis ,Stenosis of the Sphincter of Oddi
Type 4 Segmental Obstruction : Traumatic hepatodocholithiasis, Sclerosing cholangitis
Cholangiocarcinoma
55.
56. Benjamin classification
(Obstructive Jaundice)
Type 1 Complete obstruction :
Tumours – pancreatic head carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma
Ligation of CBD
Type 2 Intermittent obstruction :
Choledocholithiasis, Periampullary tumour , Duodenal diverticula , Papilloma of
the bile duct, Intra biliary parasites, Haemobilia
Type 3 Chronic incomplete obstruction :
Strictures of the CBD, Congenital Traumatic Sclerosing cholangitis ,Post
radiotherapy , Stenosed biliary enteric anastomosis, Cystic fibrosis, Chronic
pancreatitis ,Stenosis of the Sphincter of Oddi
Type 4 Segmental Obstruction : Traumatic hepatodocholithiasis, Sclerosing cholangitis
Cholangiocarcinoma
Notas del editor
Impairment of gut mucaosal integrity, enhanced inflammation, increased cytokine expression, endotoxin associated down regulation of bile acid transportation
Split into establishment of jaundice , etiology, complications
Courversir’s law
Audience - charcot
Intermittent jaundice
Jaundice more common in Ca GB, less common in HCC
Infiltrative jaundice causes less jaundice
Lymphoma develops deepening jaundice - porta compression