The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by ascites (abdominal dropsy):
Respiratory system (J00-J99)
- Dyspnea (shortness of breath)
- Hepatopulmonary syndrome – disorder of pulmonary function due to severe acute or chronic liver disease such as cirrhosis.
- Hydrothorax – accumulation of water in the chest cavity.
Liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts – Pancreas (pancreas) (K70-77; K80-87).
- Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) – functional, in principle fully reversible decrease in glomerular filtration rate (total volume of primary urine an, which is filtered by all glomeruli (renal corpuscles) of both kidneys together, in a defined unit of time, is filtered) resulting in oliguric renal failure (in oliguric renal failure, the kidneys give < 500 ml of urine production / day) in patients with liver cirrhosis (irreversible damage to the liver and a pronounced remodeling of liver tissue) or fulminant hepatitis (liver inflammation) in the absence of evidence of other causes of renal failure (slowly progressive reduction in renal function).
Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-93).
- Reflux esophagitis – esophagitis caused by acid regurgitation of gastric juice.
- Hernias (abdominal wall hernias)
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis).
