ascites

Examples of ascites in the following topics:

• Edema

  • For example, severe heart failure can cause pulmonary edema, pleural effusions, ascites, and peripheral edema.
  • For example, severe heart failure can cause pulmonary edema, pleural effusions, ascites, and peripheral edema.

• Hepatitis

  • Extensive damage and scarring of liver, known as cirrhosis, leads to weight loss, easy bruising and bleeding tendencies, peripheral edema and accumulation of ascites, or fluid in the abdominal cavity.
  • Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by a variable constellation of symptoms, which may include feeling unwell, enlargement of the liver, development of fluid in the abdomen ascites, and a modest elevation of liver blood tests.

• Ovarian Cancer

  • There can be a build-up of fluid (ascites) in the abdominal cavity.