Chapter 044 Abdominal Swelling and Ascites (Part 4) pdf

... [PMID: 9308124] Parsons SL et al: Malignant ascites. Br J Surg 83:6, 1996 [PMID: 8653366] Chapter 044. Abdominal Swelling and Ascites (Part 4) Chylous ascites refers to a turbid, milky, or creamy ... "transudative" and "exudative" ascites. Am J Med 77:83, 1988 particularly constrictive pericarditis should raise a high index of suspi...

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... ether Chapter 044. Abdominal Swelling and Ascites (Part 3) A gradient <1.1 g/dL (low gradient) suggests that the ascites is not due to portal hypertension with >97% accuracy and mandates ... pancreatitis, serositis, pyogenic peritonitis, and nephrotic syndrome (Table 44-1). Table 44-1 presents some of the disease states that produce high-SAAG and low-SAAG...

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... loops is Chapter 044. Abdominal Swelling and Ascites (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 44. Abdominal Swelling and Ascites Abdominal Swelling Abdominal swelling or ... the Patient: Abdominal Swelling A carefully executed general physical examination can yield valuable clues concerning the etiology of abdominal swelling. Thus pa...

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... high-gradient ascites include alcoholic Chapter 044. Abdominal Swelling and Ascites (Part 2) Palpation is often difficult with massive ascites, and ballottement of overlying fluid may be the ... ascites and differentiates ascites due to portal hypertension from ascites not due to portal hypertension >97% of the time. Other etiologies of high-gradient ascit...

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... g/L are sufficient to keep oxygen supply from being critically low. Chapter 107. Transfusion Biology and Therapy (Part 4) Apheresis technology is used for the collection of multiple units ... are transfused, and each unit is anticipated to increase the platelet count 5000– 10,000/µL. Patients who have received multiple transfusions may be alloimmunized to many HLA- and pl...

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... this pain-modulating circuit contain endogenous opioid Chapter 012. Pain: Pathophysiology and Management (Part 4) Pain transmission and modulatory pathways. A. Transmission system for nociceptive ... has links in the hypothalamus, midbrain, and medulla, and it selectively controls spinal pain-transmission neurons through a descending pathway (Fig. 12 -4). Human brain i...

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