Evaluation of chronic abdominal pain

Last reviewed: 13 Jul 2025
Last updated: 30 Jul 2025

Summary

Diagnósticos diferenciais

comuns

  • GERD
  • Peptic ulcer disease
  • Infectious gastroenteritis
  • Lactase deficiency
  • Chronic cholecystitis, Chronic cholelithiasis
  • Nephrolithiasis
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Gastroparesis
  • Functional dyspepsia
  • Centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome (CAPS)
  • Chronic abdominal wall pain
  • Referred pain
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Incomuns

  • Crohn disease
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Subacute intestinal obstruction
  • Celiac disease
  • Chronic pancreatitis
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Gastric cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Hepatocellular cancer
  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Chronic mesenteric ischemia
  • Superior mesenteric artery syndrome
  • Acute intermittent porphyria
  • Heavy metal poisoning (lead, arsenic)
  • Familial Mediterranean fever
  • Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
  • Chronic pyelonephritis
  • Endometriosis
  • Ovarian cystic disease
  • Narcotic bowel syndrome
  • Abdominal migraine
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Colaboradores

Autores

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

Declarações

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

Declarações

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

Declarações

AR declares that she has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

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.

Declarações

ASB declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Fernando Aycinena, MD

Surgery Resident

Department of Surgery

University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

Knoxville

TN

Declarações

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

Declarações

NS declares that he has no competing interests.

Srikrishna Nagri, MD

Gastroenterologist

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua

Nashua

NH

Declarações

SN declares that he has no competing interests.

Referências

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