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Diffuse Acute Abdominal Pain (<72 hours) - Differential Diagnostic Algorithm
Look for surgical abdomen
Upper quadrant: R/O cardiac,
Pain (<72 hours ... musculoskeletal causes ... genitourinary causes ... • Mesenteric ischemia ... • Sickle cell anemia
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Chronic Abdominal ... Pain Causes - Differential ... Chronic abdominal ... mesenteric ischemia ... #Diagnosis #gastroenterology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Treatment Algorithm

IBS-Constipation:
 • Constipation: Osmotic laxatives
 • Abdominal pain: Antispasmodics

IBS-Diarrhea:
 • Diarrhea:
Irritable Bowel ... Algorithm IBS-Constipation ... laxatives • Abdominal ... pain: Antispasmodics ... #gastroenterology
Causes of Chronic Pelvic Pain (> 6 months in duration) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Co-morbidities:
 • Somatization
Causes of Chronic ... Depression/anxiety • Abdominal ... • Irritable bowel ... • Inflammatory bowel ... #Causes #OBGyn
Causes of Thrombocytosis - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Spurious:
 • Artifact (redo CBC)
Autonomous:
 • Essential thrombocytosis
 • Polycythemia
Causes of Thrombocytosis ... : • Acute or Chronic ... Inflammatory: • IBD ... Iron deficiency anemia ... #Causes #Hematology
Constipation Management Algorithm
What do you mean by constipation?
 - Infrequent bowel movements, difficult defecation or both?
Constipation Management Algorithm ... associated with abdominal ... defecation suggests IBS-C ... Constipation #Management #Algorithm ... #gastroenterology
Mechanical Bowel Obstruction and Ileus - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Ileus: Functional bowel "blockage", no peristalsis
Mechanical Obstruction:
presents with acute abdominal ... either acute or chronic ... abdominal pain ... ileus) • Abdomen is ... percussion • Nausea
Upper and Lower Causes of GI Bleed
Upper:
 • Esophagus: Tear (Mallory Weiss, Boerhaave syndrome), Variceal, Esophagitis,
Upper and Lower Causes ... fistula Lower: • Bowel ... Infectious colitis, UC/Chrons ... (IBD), Radiation ... #algorithm
Small Bowel Infarction - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Thankfully, bowel infarction in general is the rarest cause
the rarest cause ... of acute abdominal ... pain. ... reduced, colonic ... to suffer from ischemia
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Risk factors: Previous acute enteric infection, Female
Irritable Bowel ... fibromyalgia, chronic ... inflammation, Abdominal ... -HT4 agonists Pain ... #gastroenterology