Терапевтический архив (Aug 2018)

Differential diagnosis of ascites in internal medicine: clinical case

  • I N Tikhonov,
  • M S Zharkova,
  • M V Maevskaya,
  • V N Zozulya,
  • V I Leschenko,
  • T P Nekrasova,
  • M G Arslanyan,
  • N P Musina,
  • M A Tatarkina,
  • R T Rzaev,
  • K B Puzakov,
  • V T Ivashkin,
  • M S Malikova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26442/terarkh201890874-80
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 90, no. 8
pp. 74 – 80

Abstract

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Ascites and hydrothorax may be the symptoms of congestive heart failure and do not always reflects presense of the decompensated liver cirrhosis. Clinical examination of patient with chronic hepatitis C which cyanosis of the lips, cervival veins pulsation, a triple heart rhythm indicated on pathology of the heart (constrictive pericarditis), which was confirmed by instrumental methods. Congestive heart failure has lead to the congestive liver in a young female patient. Regression of all the symptoms of heart failure occurred after surgical treatment (pericardectomy).

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