Ascites as an early sign of peritoneal involvement in a patient with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosisA rare case of a 47-year man with retroperitoneal fibrosis is presented. The disease have an untypical clinical picture. The major signs were hydronephrosis and ascites related to the involvement ...
Ascites is a serious condition. It's a sign that your liver isn't working well. You need this important organ to remove waste from your blood. Ascites can be life-threatening if you don't treat it and your liver fails. Then, you'll need a liver transplant to replace your damaged orga...
Often there is a new onset of ankle edema. Weight gain is sometimes not observed in cirrhosis with ascites because of concomitant loss of lean body mass. Flank distension with shifting percussion dullness and tympany is a relatively reliable physical finding. Alternatively, a distended CAUSES OF ...
Ascites due to cirrhosis usually is a sign of advanced liver disease and it usually has a fair prognosis. Ascites due to heart failure have a better prognosis as the patient may live years with appropriate treatments. What are the complications of ascites? Some complications of ascites can be ...
variable thickness. Its superficial abdominal location allows close examination with high-resolution transducers to characterize thickening or nodularity of the omentum due to infiltration or inflammation.13It was previously reported that mesenteric thickening (>1.5 cm) is a sign of tuberculosis peritonitis...
Ascites is the accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity (space that separates the organs in abdominal cavity from the abdominal wall). Ascites is a complicated result from an underlying condition such as liver disease, kidney disease and cancer. This is an unwanted sign for patients who ...
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development of clinical signs like swelling in the abdomen is a sign for concern and should be addressed. The longer a patient delays treatment, the more resistant complications will be to treatment, although a diagnosis of refractory ascites will be delayed until all treatment options have been ...
Ascites, either as an exudate or as a transudate, can be a presenting sign of ovarian pathology and is present in approximately a third of patients [2,26]. Ascites is not limited to malignant tumours but can be associated with benign tumours such as fibromas [10,27]. Many speculative th...
(Figure 7.3). Cell composition of ascites varies greatly. In malignant ascites from ovarian carcinoma, there is a preponderance of macrophages (40–95% of cells). We plate these at 2 million cells/well in six well plates. Ascites from chronic hepatitis C on the other hand may contain ...