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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... potentially be an acute ... changes • Urinary symptoms ... Pain: • Pregnancy ... Constipation • Irritable
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Diagnosis:
 • Use a positive diagnostic strategy with
: • Use a positive ... IBS is NOT a diagnosis ... • Rome IV Criteria ... - Recurrent abdominal ... pain ~ ≥ 1x/ week
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Workup Summary
Use a positive diagnostic strategy with minimal testing.
Summary Use a positive ... IBS is NOT a diagnosis ... Rome IV Criteria ... - Recurrent abdominal ... pain ~ ≥ 1x/ week
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Rare Causes of Abdominal ... by serositis • Acute ... pain • Abdominal ... #Abdominal #Pain ... #differential #diagnosis
Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
Pathophysiology:
 • Defect in fetal free fatty acid metabolism products →
Acute Fatty Liver ... : • Defect in fetal ... postpartum): • Initial symptoms ... , vomiting, abdominal ... pain, headache,
Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei) - Diagnosis and Management 

Caused by: Tropheryma whipplei

Symptoms and Signs:
1. Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia
Management Caused ... Tropheryma whipplei Symptoms ... Abdominal pain; ... Criteria - Either ... algorithm #management #criteria
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Risk factors: Previous acute enteric infection, Female
Irritable Bowel ... Syndrome (IBS) - ... factors affecting symptom ... inflammation, Abdominal ... -HT4 agonists Pain
Rome IV Criteria for diagnosing Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders (FAPD)
Irritable bowel syndrome
The criteria must be fulfilled
(FAPD) Irritable ... constipation, not irritable ... episodes of intense, acute ... following: anorexia, nausea ... for irritable bowel
Clinical manifestations of anaphylaxis. 
Neurological (<15%): Dizziness, syncope, seizures, Confusion, impending doom. headache
Angioedema: Lips, tongue, orbit,
arrest GI (>40%): Nausea ... intestinal edema, abdominal ... pain and fecal ... anaphylaxis #signs #symptoms ... #diagnosis #criteria
TABLE 2. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) sub-classifications
lBS-diarrhoea (IBS-D)
 - >25% loose or watery stools; <25% hard
Irritable bowel ... accompanied by pain ... diarrhoea - Symptoms ... consistency to meet the criteria ... #Diagnosis #Diarrhea