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Important Causes of RUQ and Midline Abdominal Pain - Illness Scripts
PUD, Gastroenteritis, Small bowel obstruction, Appendicitis,
Important Causes ... of RUQ and Midline ... Pancreatitis Biliary ... colic, Acute Cholecystitis ... , Acute Cholangitis
Right Upper Quadrant Pain
Liver:
 - Infectious: Acute viral hepatitis, Liver abscess
 - Non-infectious: hepatitis (Alcohol, Medications),
Budd-Chiari syndrome Biliary ... "ascending cholangitis ... "biliary colic") ... Subdiaphragmatic abscess #RUQ ... differential #diagnosis #causes
ERCP Management Algorithm for Patient with Symptomatic Choledocholithiasis 

Predictors of choledocholithiasis
Very strong
 - CBD stone on
ERCP Management ... Algorithm for Patient ... Very strong - CBD ... Clinical Ascending cholangitis ... Choledocholithiasis #Biliary
Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) Elevation - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

ALP:
 - Enzymes that catalyze hydrolysis of organic phosphate
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Intestine - Other causes ... symptoms - Pain -> RUQ ... Cholangitis (PBC ... PSC - Other biliary
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
RUQ: • Biliary ... • Functional biliary ... Epigastric/LUQ ... bowel syndrome • Celiac ... poisoning • Celiac
Celiac disease is an immune-mediated, multisystem disorder that affects genetically susceptible individuals who are exposed to
CD can be associated ... diseases (primary biliary ... cholangitis, autoimmune ... primary sclerosing cholangitis ... performed in select cases