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 ...

MP was a 20-year-old, C4 ventilator-dependent tetraplegic hospitalized for acute rehabilitation after a diving accident. Past medical history was unremarkable. MP's hospital course was complicated by ...

Hepatitis viruses have a strong tropism for hepatocytes; viral antigen also has been detected in pancreas and gallbladder. Acute pancreatitis is common in Fulminant hepatic failure but rarely reported ...

Meckel’s diverticulum is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract, though it rarely presents with perforation in adulthood. Clinical presentation may often mimic more benign ...

Unenhanced CT was about 30% less accurate than contrast-enhanced CT for the evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED), a retrospective study showed. Of 201 adult patients, ...

Diagnostic ultrasound is an excellent modality for many conditions that present with abdominal pain. It has the advantage of being both portable and radiation-free. Although actual scanning time may ...

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 ...

Epiploic appendagitis is an uncommon, self-limiting inflammatory condition of the fat‐filled serosal outpouchings along the colon. Typically presenting with localised, sharp abdominal pain, it often ...

Acute appendicitis is the sudden and severe inflammation of the appendix. It can cause pain in the abdomen, and this pain may occur quickly and worsen within hours. The appendix is a narrow tube that ...

A nulliparous woman in her 40s presented with abdominal pain and dyspnoea during the second trimester of pregnancy.

Case #1: A 5-year-old boy with abdominal pain was brought to the ED by his parents. The pain had been present for 12 hours, and the child had vomited once. There was no fever or diarrhea. Tenderness ...