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Table 23.4
Jaundice with Abdominal Pain, Distension or Tenderness
Acute
cholangitis
(Charcot's triad of pain,
fever
and jaundice)
Intra-abdominal
sepsis
Paracetamol
poisoning (
Appendix 36.1
)
Severe heart failure
Liver
abscess
Viral
hepatitis
Alcoholic
hepatitis (Chapter
78
)
Acute
pancreatitis
(Chapter
79
)
HELLP
syndrome of pregnancy (
haemolysis
, elevated liver enzymes, low
platelet
count) (Chapter
32
)
Budd-Chiari
syndrome
Haemobilia
(Sandblom's triad of gastrointestinal
bleeding
, biliary colic and jaundice)