Evaluación del dolor abdominal crónico

Last reviewed: 29 Oct 2025
Last updated: 30 Jul 2025

Summary

Differentials

Common

  • ERGE
  • Enfermedad ulcerosa péptica
  • Gastroenteritis infecciosa
  • Deficiencia de lactasa
  • Colecistitis crónica, colelitiasis crónica
  • Nefrolitiasis
  • Enfermedad inflamatoria pélvica (EIP)
  • Síndrome del intestino irritable
  • Gastroparesia
  • Dispepsia funcional
  • Síndrome del dolor abdominal mediado centralmente (CAPS)
  • Dolor crónico de la pared abdominal
  • Dolor referido
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Uncommon

  • Enfermedad de Crohn
  • Colitis ulcerosa
  • Obstrucción intestinal subaguda
  • Enfermedad celíaca
  • Pancreatitis crónica
  • Cáncer de esófago
  • Cáncer gástrico
  • Cáncer colorrectal
  • Cáncer de páncreas
  • Carcinoma hepatocelular
  • Colangiocarcinoma
  • Cáncer de ovario
  • Isquemia mesentérica crónica
  • Síndrome de arteria mesentérica superior
  • Porfiria aguda intermitente
  • Intoxicación por metales pesados (plomo, arsénico)
  • Fiebre mediterránea familiar
  • Hemoglobinuria paroxística nocturna
  • Pielonefritis crónica
  • Endometriosis
  • Poliquistosis ovárica
  • Síndrome del intestino narcótico
  • Migraña abdominal
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Contributors

Authors

Tamar Ringel-Kulka, MD, MPH

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Maternal and Child Health

Gillings School of Global Public Health

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill

NC

Disclosures

TRK declares that she has no competing interests.

Yehuda Ringel, MD, AGAF, FACG

Chief

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Meir Medical Center, Clalit Health Services

Affiliated with Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

Israel

Disclosures

YR declares that he has no competing interests.

Amit Ringel, MD

3rd year Research Fellow

BWH Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston

MA

Disclosures

AR declares that she has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Drs Tamar Ringel-Kulka, Yehuda Ringel, and Amit Ringel would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr A. Sidney Barritt IV, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

ASB declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Fernando Aycinena, MD

Surgery Resident

Department of Surgery

University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

Knoxville

TN

Disclosures

FA declares that he has no competing interests.

Ned Snyder, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine

Chief of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston

TX

Disclosures

NS declares that he has no competing interests.

Srikrishna Nagri, MD

Gastroenterologist

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua

Nashua

NH

Disclosures

SN declares that he has no competing interests.

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