Ascites may be the result not only of hydraemia, but also of cancerous peritonitis or of pressure on the portal vein by cancer.
In about one-fourth of the cases ascites is present, but in a somewhat larger proportion hemorrhoids, blackish, tarry stools, and other evidences of portal congestion.
Delafield states that "Friedreich describes two cases occurring in patients with ascites who had been frequently tapped.
Ascites may be present, but is not a necessary result of disease of the glands.
Association with ascites or with chronic peritonitis may lead to a false diagnosis.
Ascites or exudative peritonitis is present in about one-half of the cases of cancer of the liver.
It is true, ascites is a common symptom in advanced cirrhosis, but the rapid accumulation of fluid and the prompt filling of the cavity after tapping distinguish that which arises from portal thrombosis from all others.
In what way soever it may be produced, the practical fact remains that ascites is a frequent symptom, occurring in somewhat more than one-half of the cases.
Ascites may be the first symptom to announce the onset of cirrhosis; it is more frequently amongst the later symptoms, and is the evidence of much interference in the portal circulation.
The form of ascites that most resists diuretics is that which originates in cirrhosis.
In sclerosis or cancer the quantity of urea falls rapidly on the occurrence of ascites or oedema, when a notable quantity of urea is found in the fluid.
The fluid of ascites and that of the ovarian dropsy affect the position of the abdominal viscera variously In ascites, the fluid gravitates to whichever side the body inclines, and it displaces the moveable viscera towards the opposite side.
Ovarian dropsy is distinguished from ascites by the particular form and situation of the swelling.
Various medicines were administered, and at length the cough almost suddenly ceased, and evident ascites appeared.
The animal has suffered materially from mange, which has been apparently cured: the itchiness and eruption altogether disappear, but many weeks do not elapse ere ascites begins to be seen, and the abdomen is gradually distended with fluid.
The treatment of ascites is seldom perfectly successful.
The remote causes ofascites may be either symptomatic or idiopathic, and either local or general.
When ascites is an idiopathic affection, it may proceed from all the common causes of inflammation.
In the number of the London Medical and Physical Journal for April, 1826, a case of ascites is related by H.
When in the latter mode, the ascites is usually combined with anasarca, and the disorder generally comes on suddenly, and has a rapid progress.
The possibility of curing ascites and dropsy of the ovaria, by exciting inflammation in the abdominal sac, either by the admission of air into it, or mechanical irritation; and 4th.
Stillingia: in cirrhosis; torpidity and jaundice following intermittent fever; ascites due to hepatic changes; to be combined with Nux Vomica, in deficient secretion.
Copaiba: to remove ascites and albuminuria dependent on cardiac or chronic Bright's disease, and in some cases of hematuria.
In ascites he recommends that when other means fail an opening should be made three finger-breadths below the navel with a pointed phlebotomy knife, and a portion of the fluid allowed to evacuate itself.
La Motte has given three cases of ascites which, by the distention of the abdomen, produced considerable obstruction to the delivery of the child.
In almost every case of great accumulation of liquor amnii, the child was dead, hydrocephalic, or with ascites and in many the placenta was diseased.
Ascites is one of the late symptoms in the disease, and precedes dropsy of the leg, which may come on later, due to pressure on the large veins in the abdominal cavity by the ascitic fluid.
In the ascites of kidney troubles there will be a history of general oedema--puffiness of face and eyes on rising in the morning probably having attracted the attention of the patient or his friends previously.
Other less common causes of ascites are chronic peritonitis, either tuberculous in the young, or due to cancer in the aged, and more rarely still pernicious anaemia.
In ascites due to heart disease, the dropsy of the feet and legs precedes the ascites, and there will be a history of palpitation, shortness of breath, and perhaps cough.
It is distinguished from ascites by the tumour and pain, especially at the beginning, occupying one side, and the fluctuation being less distinctly perceptible.
There is an old record of a woman of fifty who had suffered from ascites for thirty years.
Jaundice is present in most cases and where the portal circulation is seriously compressed, ascites developes.
Any accumulation of ascitic fluid in the cavities should be removed by aspiration with the trocar, as described in the treatment of ascites and hydrothorax.
This thrill is not often obtainable, and in any case is not pathognomonic of hydatids, as it may be elicited in ascites and in other abdominal cysts.
Again, in tuberculous ascites the abdominal cavity is filled with a fluid practically devoid of anti-bacterial substances, so that the bacilli are able to thrive and work their will on the tissues.
In cases ofascites and anasarca; when the patients are weak, and the evacuation of the water rapid; the use of proper bandage is indispensably necessary to their safety.
Ascites and anasarca, but not much otherwise diseased, and well enough to walk about the house, and see after her family affairs.
Ascites and anasarca, with strong symptoms of diseased viscera.
Ascites and very thick anasarcous legs and thighs, total loss of strength and appetite.
In consequence of very free living, had an ascites and swelled legs.
His disease an ascites and swelled legs, the consequence of a very free course of life; he had been once tapped, and taken much medicine before I saw him.
If the belly in ascites be tense, hard, and circumscribed, or the limbs in anasarca solid and resisting, we have but little to hope.
A poor man labouring under an ascites and anasarca, was directed to take a decoction of Digitalis every four hours.
A more elaborate form of the cannula for ascites is seen in another specimen, also in the Naples Museum (Pl.
A tube on similar principles to the ascites cannula was employed in empyema (Hippocrates, ii.
The abdomen is rounded and there is no bulging at the sides like there is in ascites (dropsy).
But not all cases of ascites can be cured by an operation, it depends upon the cause.
Ascites (dropsy in the abdomen) usually occurs sooner or later and may be very marked, and it recurs soon after each tapping.
Ascites and hydrothorax may follow, but not necessarily any considerable oedema of the peripheral parts of the body.
Anasarca and ascites may exist a long time with little suffering or danger, but a small amount of serum in certain other localities causes alarming symptoms and speedy death.
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