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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Diagnosis Framework ... potentially be an acute ... • Fever • Anorexia ... aneurysms • Acute ... #gastroenterology
Important Causes of RUQ and Midline Abdominal Pain - Illness Scripts
PUD, Gastroenteritis, Small bowel obstruction, Appendicitis,
RUQ and Midline Abdominal ... Pain - Illness ... Biliary colic, Acute ... #differential #diagnosis ... #signs #symptoms
Functional Dyspepsia - Signs, Symptoms and Pathophysiology
Delayed gastric emptying - Postprandial fullness, nausea, vomiting
Hypersensitivity to gastric
Functional Dyspepsia - Signs ... postprandial fullness, abdominal ... Pathophysiology #gastroenterology ... #symptoms #diagnosis ... #signs
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Gastrointestinal Manifestations
 - Thrombosis of vessels in the pancreas, Vasculitis -> Acute Pancreatitis
Vasculitis -> Acute ... Pseudo-Obstruction: Abdominal ... pain, bloating, ... pathophysiology #signs ... #symptoms #diagnosis
Diseases of the Biliary Tract
Asymptomatic gallstones - Asymptomatic
Symptomatic gallstones - Biliary pain
Cholesterolosis of gallbladder - Usually
gallbladder cancer Acute ... nausea, vomiting, fever ... , Murphy sign Chronic ... , jaundice, fever ... #differential #diagnosis
Fever in Returning Travelers from Tropical Regions - Frequent Differential Diagnoses
Medical History:
 • Skin exposure to
Frequent Differential Diagnoses ... without localizing signs ... , Lassa fever, acute ... infection • Abdominal ... pain - Typhoid,
Acute Schistosomiasis: Katayama Fever
 • Most common in travelers and children
 • "Swimmers Itch" in the
Acute Schistosomiasis ... : Katayama Fever ... arthralgias, diarrhea, abdominal ... pain, headache, ... #diagnosis #clinical
Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (PIMS-TS)
Clinical features
all: fever > 101.3 F
most: oxygen
features all: fever ... hypotension some: abdominal ... pain, diarrhea, ... #coronavirus #diagnosis ... #Signs #Symptoms
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Mediterranean Fever ... by serositis • Acute ... painAbdominal ... Positive Carnett's sign ... #diagnosis
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
Evaluation of Acute ... pain, bloody diarrhea ... Bloody diarrhea, fever ... , abdominal pain ... algorithm #workup #diagnosis