Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography

Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) is an initial and useful measure to differentiate causes of ascites. High gradient ascites (SAAG >1.1 g/dL) is one of the important features of heart failure. Low gradient ascites in heart failure is relatively rare and needs additional workups to rule out ot...

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Autores principales: Trongtorsak, Angkawipa, Kittipibul, Veraprapas, Antala, Drashti, Meng, Qingqing, Puwanant, Sarinya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8842280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35178310
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21251
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author Trongtorsak, Angkawipa
Kittipibul, Veraprapas
Antala, Drashti
Meng, Qingqing
Puwanant, Sarinya
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description Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) is an initial and useful measure to differentiate causes of ascites. High gradient ascites (SAAG >1.1 g/dL) is one of the important features of heart failure. Low gradient ascites in heart failure is relatively rare and needs additional workups to rule out other serious causes, such as malignancy and infection. We herein report a case of a 42-year-old female with low-SAAG ascites from worsening congestive heart failure, which was confirmed to be portal hypertension-originated by triphasic abdominal computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-88422802022-02-16 Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography Trongtorsak, Angkawipa Kittipibul, Veraprapas Antala, Drashti Meng, Qingqing Puwanant, Sarinya Cureus Cardiology Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) is an initial and useful measure to differentiate causes of ascites. High gradient ascites (SAAG >1.1 g/dL) is one of the important features of heart failure. Low gradient ascites in heart failure is relatively rare and needs additional workups to rule out other serious causes, such as malignancy and infection. We herein report a case of a 42-year-old female with low-SAAG ascites from worsening congestive heart failure, which was confirmed to be portal hypertension-originated by triphasic abdominal computed tomography. Cureus 2022-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8842280/ /pubmed/35178310 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21251 Text en Copyright © 2022, Trongtorsak et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Trongtorsak, Angkawipa
Kittipibul, Veraprapas
Antala, Drashti
Meng, Qingqing
Puwanant, Sarinya
Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography
title Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography
title_full Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography
title_fullStr Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography
title_full_unstemmed Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography
title_short Heart Failure-Related Ascites With Low Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient: Diagnostic Clues From Triphasic Abdominal Computed Tomography
title_sort heart failure-related ascites with low serum-ascites albumin gradient: diagnostic clues from triphasic abdominal computed tomography
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8842280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35178310
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21251
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