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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... abdominal pain ... Abdominal Pain ... abdominal pain ... #Pain #Chronic
Causes of Chronic Pelvic Pain (> 6 months in duration) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Co-morbidities:
 • Somatization
Pelvic Pain (> ... wall pain Gynecologic ... Irritable bowel syndrome ... • Myofascial pain ... #Pelvic #Pain #
Diffuse Acute Abdominal Pain (<72 hours) - Differential Diagnostic Algorithm
Look for surgical abdomen
Upper quadrant: R/O cardiac,
Diffuse Acute Abdominal ... Pain (<72 hours ... ) - Differential ... Irritable bowel syndrome ... #Abdominal #Pain
Adrenal Insufficiency Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Clinical suspicion: Weakness, fatigue, nausea, musculoskeletal pain, dizziness, volume depletion, abdominal pain,
Clinical suspicion ... musculoskeletal pain ... volume depletion, abdominal ... pain, hypotension ... ACTH) stimulation test
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Risk factors: Previous acute enteric infection, Female
and Management Algorithm ... factors: Previous acute ... fibromyalgia, chronic ... inflammation, Abdominal ... -HT4 agonists Pain
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Pain • Hereditary ... by serositis • Acute ... painAbdominal ... incisional hernias: clinical ... #Pain #differential
Mesenteric Ischemia - Differential Diagnostic Schema
Chronic: ASCVD, Venous, Vasculitides 5% (PAN, [E]GPA, IgA, MPA)
Acute
 - Venous
Diagnostic Schema Chronic ... Vasculitides 5% (PAN ... GPA, IgA, MPA) Acute ... Antiphospholipid syndrome ... #Diagnosis #algorithm
Small Paraumbilical Hernia on POCUS

Very Obese pt with Down syndrome. Acute abdominal pain. Abdominal exam:NAD.

Dr. Mohammed
Paraumbilical Hernia on POCUS ... Obese pt with Down syndrome ... Acute abdominal ... pain. ... #clinical #ultrasound
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
(Clinical Dx). ... Behcet disease) Differential ... Recurrent and chronic ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... pain: Glucocorticoids
Chronic Pancreatitis

Definition: A pathologic fibroinflammatory syndrome of the pancreas in individuals with genetic, environmental, and/or other
Chronic Pancreatitis ... fibroinflammatory syndrome ... sensitivity) Clinical ... Manifestations: • Abdominal ... pain • Fat-soluble