A 38-year-old white man presented with a 2-week history of abdominal pain and abdominal swelling. He had a long history of very mild asthma. Two years ago an endocrinologist diagnosed and treated him ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: Could you please explain ascites, the abdomen swelling problem? Is it curable? – B.G. Dear B.G.: Ascites (uh-SIGH-teez) arises from retention of body fluid in the abdominal cavity.

ASCITES is a problem frequently encountered and often unsatisfactorily treated. An adjunct in the therapy of ascites has been tried in a limited number of cases and has seemed sufficiently helpful to ...

Background A 63-year-old Caucasian woman presented with intermittent, left-sided abdominal discomfort without other symptoms. Physical examination revealed massive splenomegaly and complete blood ...

Budd-Chiari syndrome. Light micrograph of a section of liver affected by Budd-Chiari syndrome. This is a rare syndrome that may occur as a result of any condition that obstructs blood flow from the ...

Paracentesis is a medical procedure that doctors perform to drain fluid from a person’s abdominal cavity. It is sometimes called an abdominal tap. Doctors refer to this buildup of fluid as ascites, ...

A 22-year-old, gravida 2, para 0101, A + serologies (negative), African–American female with limited prenatal care presented to our Emergency Department at approximately 37 weeks' gestation with ...

Morison’s pouch is an area between your liver and your right kidney. It’s also called the hepatorenal recess or right subhepatic space. Morison’s pouch is a potential space that can open up when fluid ...

2.1 Ascites is a common complication of cirrhosis of the liver. Build-up of fluid causes the abdomen to swell and may lead to discomfort, difficulty breathing, fatigue, nausea and poor appetite. 2.2 ...

Sterile ascites after ventriculoperitoneal shunting is rare and usually of unknown cause. 1 We describe a patient in whom an inflammatory reaction to silicone tubing used in the creation of a shunt ...

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 ...