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Activity 1
Causes of Acute Abdominal Pain:
Surgical
Peritonitis
Perforated viscus
Appendicitis
Bowel Obstruction
Cholecystitis
Ascending Cholangitis
PUD
Mesenteric Ischaemia
Ruptured AAA
Pancreatitis
Medical
Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases
Hepatitis
Endocrinological Crises
(Diabetes Keto,
Addison crisis,
hypercalcemia)
MI, Pulmonary infarct
Pneumonia
Pericarditis
Effusion/empyema
tuberculosis of
ileocecal junction
Gynaecological
Ectopic
Miscarriage
Endometriosis
PID
Tubo-ovarian abscess
Ovarian torsion
Acute Cholecystitis
Biliary colic
Cholangitis
CBD obstruction
Pancreatitis
Hepatitis, Hepatic Abscess/mass, Budd-Chiari
Subphrenic abscess
Gastric/duodenal, pancreatic, hepatic flexure
GU: nephrolithiasis, pyelonephritis, renal mass/ischemia/trauma
RLL pneumonia, effusion/empyema, CHFeffusion, hepatic congestion, MI, PI, pericariditis,
pleuritis
Mis: Zoster, trauma, costochondritis, Dengue, Ectopic, Fitz-Huge-Curtis syndrome