Chronic abdominal pains
Description | Basic evaluations: Blood: Full blood count, ESR or CRP, sodium, potassium, chlorine, calcium, GOT, GPT, AP, gamma-GT, LDH, bilirubin, creatinine, urea, glucose, amylase, lipase, pancreas-elastase, PTT, INR, haptoglobin Urine: Urine status- and sedimentation Stool: Occult blood, elastase Examinations according to clinical suspicion: Upper gastric pains Often “functional problems”, organic causes in decreased frequency. Gallstones, bile duct anomalies, hiatus hernia, duodenal ulcer, gastric ulcer, gastric carcinoma, pancreas diseases, also posterior myocardial infarction, basal pneumonia, pleurisy, Bornholm disease, intestinal parasites (lamblia), spherocytic anemia with splenomegaly, lactose-intolerance, infections, such as CMV, VZV, malaria, tuberculosis, lues, HIV (consent required), and others Lower gastric pains |