What is the cause of this patient's severe, painful ascites? Painful, severe ascites can be due to peritoneal diseases such as malignancy or tuberculosis. In such cases, however, the peritoneal fluid ...

Causes of abdominal pain can vary. They range from the common upset stomach caused by something you ate, gastroenteritis, or acid reflux to more emergent life-threatening causes such as a gallbladder ...

In a recent study published in the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, researchers described two cases of acute pain in the abdomen of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: ...

Today, the primary care physician, emergency department physician, or advanced practice provider (nurse practitioner or physician assistant) is often the first clinician to evaluate a patient with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone experiences a stomachache every so often, whether that’s because you ate something that didn’t agree with you or maybe ...

A number of diagnoses were still considered possibilities as the patient underwent laparotomy. A 9-year-old boy presented to the emergency department (ED) complaining of right upper-quadrant (RUQ) ...

A man in his mid-60s with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and mild dementia presents to the emergency department (ED) with severe generalized abdominal pain that started immediately after finishing ...

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At the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting, researchers presented pooled data from two phase III trials to look closer at the effect of plecanatide (Trulance) on severe abdominal pain ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

Everyone experiences a stomachache every so often, whether that’s because you ate something that didn’t agree with you or maybe you’re constipated. These aches and pains tend to go away on their own ...