Portal Hypertension: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

  • Erosive gastritis (gastric mucosal erosions).
  • Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB; gastrointestinal bleeding).
  • Mallory-Weiss syndrome – longitudinal tears of the mucosa (mucous membrane) and submucosa (tissue layer between the mucosa and muscle layer) of the esophagus occurring more frequently in alcoholics, which can be associated with potentially life-threatening bleeding of the outer esophagus and/or the entrance to the stomach (gastrointestinal hemorrhage/GIB) as a complication
  • Ventricular ulcer (gastric ulcer).

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).

  • Ascites (abdominal dropsy)