title: Systemic causes of abdominal pain.
abstract: A variety of systemic and extra-abdominal diseases can cause symptoms within the abdominal cavity. Systemic and extra-abdominal diseases may include abdominal symptoms caused by several mechanisms. This article discusses the most important and common of these causes, namely the metabolic/endocrine causes, hematologic causes, inflammatory causes, infectious causes, functional causes, and the neurogenic causes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. matthewfields@gmail.com
authors.forename: J Matthew
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fields
authors.forename: Anthony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000208:Acute Disease; D016883:Diabetic Ketoacidosis / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications*