Acute Abdominal Pain

• GI

  <aside> 💡 Sudden onset, brought u by food: PUD - Peptic Ulcer Disease → !Perforated Gastric ulcer

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  <aside> 💡 Hepatomegaly (Liver)

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  <aside> 💡 Gallstone Diseases, e.g. Biliary “Colic”

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  • !Acute Pancreatitis
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Ascending colon, hepatic flexure
    • CRC - Colorectal cancer
  • Small intestine

• Non-GI

  <aside> 💡 Right kidney: Flank Pain, Pyelonephritis

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  <aside> 💡 !MI

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  • Lower Lobe Pneumonia, !PE - Pulmonary embolism
  • Abdominal wall
  • !Pre-eclampsia

Chronic

• GI

  • Chronic Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer

• Non-GI

  • Stable Angina
  • Lower lobe lung disease
  • Abdominal wall

• Table of abdominal organs

• Table of ACUTE Abdo Pain DDx