Acute abdomen
Description | Basic evaluations: Blood: Full blood count, ESR or CRP, sodium, potassium, chlorine, calcium, GOT, GPT, AP, gamma-GP, LDH, bilirubin, creatinine, urea, glucose, troponin T, d-dimers, amylase, lipase, pancreas-elastase (more sensitive than amylase or lipase), PTT, INR, haptoglobin Urine: Stool: (Occult) blood Examinations as per clinical suspicion: Pains in the upper abdomen: Cholecystitis, gallstones, abscesses, ulcer perforation, hiatus hernia, esophagus perforation, appendicitis, pancreatitis, spleen infarction, also angina pectoris, posterior myocardial infarction, Malta fever Lower epigastric pains: Appendicitis, kidney stones, acute intermittent porphyria (porphobilinogen and total porphyrine in the spontaneous urine), Crohn’s disease, gall bladder perforation, psoas abscess, rupture of the aneurism, gynecological illnesses (adnexitis, ovarial cyst with twisting of pedicle, extra-uterine gravidity), mechanical ileus, sigma-diverticulitis Please also refer to section “chronic abdominal pains” |
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