Abdominal distension causes

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Overview

Abdominal distension (or "distended abdomen") can be a sign of many other conditions, including:In alphabetical order.

Causes in Alphabetical Order

• Abdominal abscess
• Abdominal aneurysm
• Abdominal trauma with intra-abdominal bleeding
• Acanthocytosis
• Acute appendicitis
• Air swallowing (nervous habit)
• Ascites

  • Congestive Heart Failure

• Hypoalbuminemia (e.g. malnutrition, liver failure)
• Metastatic cancer (e.g., colon, ovarian)
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Portal hypertension (e.g. cirrhosis)

• Autonomic dysreflexia
• Biliary Atresia
• Blind loop syndrome
• Bloating
• Bowel obstruction
• Cardiac tamponade
• Chylous ascites
• Cirrhosis
• Clostridium difficile
• Colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie's Syndrome)
• Colonic volvulus
• Congenital hepatic porphyria
• Congenital megacolon
• Congenital short bowel
• Congenital tuberculosis
• Constipation
• Cordyceps
• Diverticulitis
• Drowning
• End stage liver failure
• Enteritis
• Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
• Functional gas/constipation
• Gas/bloat syndrome
• Granulosa cell tumor of the ovary
• Heart failure
• Helminthiasis
• Hepatorenal tyrosinemia
• Hirschsprung disease
• Hookworm
• Hypothyroidism
• Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis
• Ileus
• Infectious diarrhea
• Intestinal pseudoobstruction
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Ischemic colitis
• Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus
• Islet cell transplantation
• Jirásek-Zuelzer-Wilson syndrome
• Lactose intolerance
• Large bowel obstruction
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Meconium plug syndrome
• Metastatic cancer (e.g., colon, ovarian)
• Necrotizing enterocolitis
• Neonatal sepsis
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Obesity
• Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome OHSS
• Ovarian cancer
• Ovarian cyst
• Overeating
• Pancreatitis and complications (pseudocyst)
• Paralytic ileus
• Pelvic masses
• Peritoneal bleeding
• Peritonitis
• Polycystic Liver Disease
• Pregnancy
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Pseudocyesis
• Pseudomyxoma peritonei
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Sclerosing mesenteritis
• Small bowel obstruction
• Smith's disease
• Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)
• SSRI discontinuation syndrome
• Stongyloidiasis
• Stalker-Chitayat syndrome
• Toxic megacolon
• Trauma
• Ulcerative colitis
• Umbilical hernia or ventral hernia
• Urethral obstruction sequence
• Urorectal septum malformation sequence
• Valvular dysplasia of the child
• Variegate porphyria
• Volvulus
• Weight gain
• Wolman syndrome