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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... Femoral/Inguinal hernia ... intolerance • SIBO ... hernia • Rib ... #Causes #Differential
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
painAbdominal ... Positive Carnett's sign ... to incisional hernias ... : clinical examination ... #Pain #differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet disease) Differential ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... pain: Glucocorticoids ... diagnosis #management #signs
Aortoenteric Fistula - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
• Uncommon but life-threatening
• Most common site of bowel connection
the duodenum Clinical ... Signs/Symptoms: ... pain, and palpable ... Not reliable, so ... • Should be on differential
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... systemic sx + signs ... very remarkable w/differential ... 50 in GCA, but normal ... claudication: pain
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... or without back pain ... • Bilateral signs ... - Vasculitis- Heroin ... management #neurology #differential