E log of p. Ruchithareddy
Hello everyone its me Ruchitha. I have joined in the medicine posting recently. Here Iam presenting a case of I have followed
CASE:
A Female patient who is daily labourer in occupation of age 55 years walked in to casualty with the chief complaints of the distension of the abdomen since last 10 days.
Present illness :She is apparently asymptomatic 2 years back, when she first developed pain in abdomen which was dull aching type, which was localized to the epigastrium and left hypochondrium pain was insidious in onset and it got aggravated with food intake pain used get relieved through self induced vomiting. She also stated that she is having early satiety and started lossing her weight. Which she first observed that her clothes becoming loose ( thickness in the lips and temporal wasting). She also stated that she is progressively becoming fatigued such that she has to finally stop going to her work .she also complained that once she had a involuntary vomiting which was frank blood ( hematemesis) .It was only one episode which was 50 ml. No h/o of bilious vomiting,heart burn, nocturnal cough, dyspepsia, Malena, hematochezia, purpura, echymosis, loose stools, or constipation. She also complained that she was having night sweats which were drenching and made her bath. She is having low grade fever, chills and rigors. She denies joint pain, back pain, dysuria, hematuria, cough, expectorations, wheeze (or) frequent URTIS.
Past history :She is a. Not a known case of diabetes,, hypertension, tuberculosis, asthma, epilepsy.
Family history :She is a mother of three children. Her husband died at the age 42 with respiratory causes.
Medical history:She underwent hysterectomy for fibroids.
Personal history :
Appetite :Decreased
Diet:mixed
Sleep :Adequate
Bowel and bladder :Regular
Not a known case of alcoholic and smoker
General examination :patient was conscious, coherent, cooperative.
Thin built and moderately nourished
P. R: 72bpm
B. P:140/80
Temperature : afebrile
Respiratory rate :18 cpm
Grbs :140mg/dl
Pso2:98%
Systemic examination :
CVS : s1 ,s2 were heared. No murmurs. No additional sounds were heared.
Respi: trachea is central in position
Bilateral air entry is present
Vesicular breath sounds were heared
CVS:no neurological abnormalities were detected
Per abdomen :
Patient was exposed from xiphisternum to pubic symphysis .patient was examined in supine and standing position
Inspection :Abdomen is distended
Linea nigra is present
No scars or draining sinuses were present
No engorged veins
Palpation : Temperature is afebrile
Tenderness present in the epigastrium and left hypochondrial region .Grith of the abdomen was 85cm
Palpable mass felt in the left hypochondrial region .
Moderate splenomeagaly is present of 16cm.
Fluid thrill is absent
Percussion :Shifting dullness is present . Flank fullness is present
Auscultation :Bowel sounds were heared
Investigation :
ECG:
RFT:
LFT:
Portal vein thrombosis
Moderate splenomeagaly
Moderate ascitis
Caudate lobe hypertrophy
Left lobe little shrunken
Oseophageal varices
Treatment :
Tab"LASILACTONE 20/50/po/BD
Tab CARVEDALOL3 125 mg/po/BD
Tab NORFLOX 400 mg/po/BD
Tab PANTOP 40 mg/po/BD
Tab NUEROBION FORTE PO/OD
Tab OROFER PO/BD
Tab FOLATE 5mg/po/OD
Syrup zincovit 10 mg/po/HS
SAlt and fluid restriction
OnGastrroenterologistadvised
anticoagulant therapy
Oesophageal varices band ligation
Porto systemic shunt surgery
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