Question 16 / 27:  A 47 year old woman has severe diarrhea. She was recently diagnosed with a metastatic carcinoid

tumor to the liver. Octreotide is begun for

better control of the diarrhea.

Aside from slowing gastrointestinal motility and decreasing intestinal secretion what other effect of

octreotide would you expect to observe?

A  Increased pancreatic secretion of enzymes and bicarbonate
B  Stimulating insulin secretion
C  Stimulating gastric acid secretion
D  Reduction in splanchnic blood flow
E  Increased gallbladder motility
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Attribution:  Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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