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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Chronic Abdominal ... Diagnosis Framework ... did not yield a diagnosis ... changes • Urinary symptoms ... #Diagnosis #gastroenterology
Cold Urticaria
Prevalence - 0.05% in the population
Disease onset - Mostly 2nd to 4th decades of life
Causes
decades of life Causes ... and duration of symptoms ... , abdominal pain ... urticaria, Chronic ... rheumatology #comparison #table
Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
 •
Causes of Chronic ... - Differential Diagnosis ... • Stable Angina ... Acute Coronary Syndrome ... Kyphoscoliosis • Abdominal
Functional Dyspepsia - Signs, Symptoms and Pathophysiology
Delayed gastric emptying - Postprandial fullness, nausea, vomiting
Hypersensitivity to gastric
postprandial fullness, abdominal ... nonerosive reflux disease ... Pathophysiology #gastroenterology ... #symptoms #diagnosis ... #signs
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis ... are not caused ... but stable or chronic ... anterior/posterior MSK ... #Management #Signs
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
Diagnosis of ... Kidney stones caused ... Postoperative abdominal ... distention • Abdominal ... #Medications #Table
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Recurrent and chronic ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... #signs #symptoms
Most episodes of chronic cough in adults are caused by upper airway cough syndrome (UACS, also
postnasal drip syndrome ... gastroesophageal reflux disease ... until symptoms ... #Diagnosis #PrimaryCare ... #Differential #Table
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
inflammation Symptoms ... Connective tissue diseases ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... Nasal polyps and signs ... parenchyma Diagnosis
Celiac Disease - Clinical Manifestations
Gastrointestinal Manifestations: 
 • Diarrhea, Loose stools, Dyspepsia, Flatulence, Chronic abdominal pain,
Celiac Disease - ... abdominal pain, ... herpetiformis #Celiac #Disease ... #signs #symptoms ... #diagnosis #gastroenterology