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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... changes • Urinary symptoms ... Consider tumor • Upper ... mesenteric ischemia • GI ... #Causes #Differential
Hodgkin's Lymphoma vs Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Comparison

Hodgkin's Lymphoma:
 • Epidemiology: young adults 20-30, older 50-70
 •
Lymph nodes in upper ... : Pain in involved ... translocation • Types: Classification ... Extranodal disease: GI ... NonHodgkins #comparison #oncology
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
- May involve symptoms ... gastrointestinal (GI ... painAbdominal ... incisional hernias: clinical ... #Pain #differential
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
inflammation of the upper ... neuropathy - GI ... tract: abdominal ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... #rheumatology #classification
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Skin Disease Classification ... permanent alopecia Differential ... Arthritis: • Joint pain ... pericardial/abd GI ... Induced Lupus: • Symptoms
Aortoenteric Fistula - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
• Uncommon but life-threatening
• Most common site of bowel connection
the duodenum Clinical ... Signs/Symptoms: ... pain, and palpable ... abdominal mass ... • Should be on differential
IgA Vasculitis – Henoch Scholein Purpura: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 - Infectious Agents - 50% have
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... have preceding upper ... 85%) - Colicky abdominal ... pain (commonly ... nausea, vomiting, GI
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
DIAGNOSTICS
Paracentesis: 
 • Calculate absolute PMN count (total WBC x PMN %)
 • Correct
signs (fever, abdominal ... pain, etc). ... only if worsening symptoms ... TMP-SMX • Active upper ... GI bleed: use IV
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
ischemia • Skin: Erythematous ... mononeuritis multiplex • GI ... tract: Abdominal ... • Progressive symptoms ... inflammation of the upper
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Infections in HIV - Differential ... papules, pustules, erythematous ... Pneumonia: • Upper ... Constitutional symptoms ... lymphadenopathy, • Abdominal