A case of omental endometriosis with recurrent haemorrhagic ascites in a 22 year old nullipara is presented. She first presented at a private hospital with a three month history of progressive abdominal distention and the transabdominal ultrasound scan revealed a right ovarian mass with massive ascites. She had laparotomy and the histology reports of the omental and ovarian samples revealed end...

1. Centro Universitário Cesumar – Unicesumar – Maringá (PR) Brasil. 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá (PR) Brasil. 3. Hospital Paraná, Maringá (PR) Brasil. 4. University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville (KY) USA. 5. Laboratório de Micologia Médica, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá ...

Background: Adenosarcoma of endometriosis presenting with neurological paraneoplastic manifestations is rare. Case: 30 year old multiparous woman presented to neurologist with stroke. Subsequent evaluation revealed haemorrhagic ascites with adnexal masses and pulmonary thrombosis. Her CA 125 level was very high and ascetic fluid cytology showed adenocarcinoma deposits and she was treated as adv...

Ascites is excessive accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity. The ascites fluid can be characterised as inflammatory, noninflammatory, chylous, urine-like, haemorrhagic or bilious [1]. In cattle, ascites fluid is usually non-inflammatory and associated with vascular congestion due to chronic right-sided heart failure, a mediastinal mass, chronic liver or kidney disease, ileus of the smal...

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Retrospective analysis of 45 patients (33 females, 12 males) with cytologically-proven malignant ascites is presented. Abdominal pain was the most frequent symptom (69%). Fiftythree percent cases had low serum albumin. Ascitic fluid was haemorrhagic or serosanguinous in 48% cases, in the rest it was clear or straw-coloured. Peritoneal effusion was exudative in 84% cases. Mean glucose content of...

We attempted to unravel the association of acute severe abdominal pain in 14 patients with dengue haemorrhagic fever during the epidemic in 2009. All had secondary dengue infection. The findings were severe thrombocytopenia (the mean platelet count 18x109/l, range 12–48), high liver enzymes (mean ALT 374U/l, range 82–2692), ascites in all cases, acute hepatitis in 11 cases (79%), acalculous cho...

This report is of a 63-year-old man with polycythemia vera who developed the Budd-Chiari syndrome due to right hepatic vein stenosis. Diagnosis was made by laparoscopy and liver biopsy, and confirmed by hepatic venography. The patient was treated by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, and recovered completely from ascites, leg oedema and venous stasis. No pulmonary embolism was observed. One...