Avaliação de náuseas e vômitos, adultos

Evidence last reviewed: 15 Feb 2026
Topic last updated: 16 Dec 2025

Summary

Differentials

Common

  • Gastrite
  • Doença do refluxo gastroesofágico
  • Úlcera péptica
  • Gastroenterite viral
  • Intoxicação alimentar
  • Náuseas e vômitos crônicos pós-virais
  • Enxaqueca
  • Cinetose
  • Vertigem posicional paroxística benigna
  • AVC (embólico/isquêmico/hemorrágico)
  • Hipercalcemia
  • Hipotireoidismo
  • Obstrução da saída gástrica
  • Obstrução do intestino delgado
  • Obstrução do intestino grosso
  • Coledocolitíase
  • Colecistite aguda
  • Depois de cirurgia gastrointestinal
  • Constipação grave
  • Síndrome do intestino irritável (SII)
  • Síndrome do vômito cíclico (SVC)
  • Disritmias gástricas
  • Gastroparesia
  • Peritonite bacteriana
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Gestação
  • Induzida por medicamentos
  • Nefrolitíase
  • Uremia
  • Dispepsia idiopática funcional ou síndrome do sofrimento pós-prandial
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Uncommon

  • Síndrome coronariana aguda
  • Síndrome da taquicardia ortostática postural
  • Doença de Ménière
  • Schwannoma vestibular
  • Lesão cerebral traumática
  • Meningite
  • Abscesso cerebral
  • Convulsão focal com consciência comprometida
  • Tumores do sistema nervoso central
  • Insuficiência adrenal primária (aguda ou crônica)
  • Hipertireoidismo
  • Hipopituitarismo
  • Hipertermia
  • Pancreatite aguda
  • Cetoacidose diabética
  • Sequelas da cirurgia bariátrica
  • Pseudo-obstrução primária
  • Pseudo-obstrução secundária
  • Abscesso abdominal
  • Peritonite carcinomatosa
  • Câncer de estômago
  • Câncer de ovário
  • Câncer renal
  • Câncer pulmonar de células pequenas
  • Câncer de pâncreas
  • Isquemia mesentérica crônica
  • Hiperêmese canabinoide
  • Náuseas e vômitos crônicos após antibióticos ou anestésicos
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Contributors

Authors

Thomas L Abell, MD

Professor of Medicine

Arthur M. Schoen, MD, Chair in Gastroenterology

Gastrointestinal Motility Clinic

Louisville

KY

Disclosures

TLA receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Gastroparesis Clinical Research Consortium (GpCRC), and the NIH Gastric Dysrhythmias. He is an investigator for Cindome, Vanda, Neurogastrx, and Processa; a consultant for Nuvaira, Takeda, Medtronic, and Enterra Medical; a speaker for Takeda and Enterra Medical; a reviewer for UpToDate; the Gastric Electrical Stimulation editor for Neuromodulation, Wikistim; and the founder of ADEPT-GI which has intellectual property for autonomic/enteric and bioelectric diagnosis and therapies. TLA is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Prateek Mathur, MD

University of Louisville

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine

Louisville

KY

Disclosures

PM declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Professor Thomas L Abell and Dr Prateek Mathur would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Kenneth L Koch, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

KLK is a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline and a shareholder in 3 CPM Company. He is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Peer reviewers

James Neuberger, BM, BCh

Consultant Physician

Liver Unit

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Birmingham

UK

Disclosures

JN declares that he has no competing interests.

Daniel Leffler, MD, MS

Instructor in Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Director of Clinical Research

The Celiac Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston

MA

Disclosures

DL 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.

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Key articles

Quigley EM, Hasler WL, Parkman HP. AGA technical review on nausea and vomiting. Gastroenterology. 2001 Jan;120(1):263-86.Full text  Abstract

American College of Gastroenterology. Clinical guideline: gastroparesis. Aug 2022 [internet publication].Full text

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