Causes of Abdominal Pain
Identifying or pointing at a particular factor as the causative factor is impossible in case of abdominal pain. It may arise due to a wide variety of reasons.
It can however be said that abdominal pain commonly indicates the involvement of any of the organs present in or near by to the abdominal region.Therefore any abnormality in the organs of digestion (such as the stomach, liver, intestine, pancreas, gall bladder, etc), appendix, kidneys or the spleen can result in abdominal pain.
Some of the common conditions that can result in abdominal pain include:
- Blockage or obstruction of the bowels or the intestine
- Abnormalities of the aorta (major blood vessel from the heart)
- Abnormalities of the small intestine
- Abnormalities of the large intestine
- Kidney stones or other kidney abnormalities
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
- Tumors or cancers in the abdominal region
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Written by: Healthplus24 team
Date last updated: July 04, 2011