Epigastric pain refers to pain or discomfort below the ribs in your upper abdomen area. Causes range from acute digestive issues like acid reflux to chronic conditions such as esophagitis.

Epigastric pain refers to pain or discomfort below the ribs in your upper abdomen area. Causes range from acute digestive issues like acid reflux to chronic conditions, such as esophagitis.

Epigastric pain affects the middle of the upper abdomen, just below the ribcage. It is common during pregnancy. Other causes include indigestion, acid reflux and GERD, peptic ulcer disease ...

A patient in his 70s presents to the emergency department with a 1-day history of intermittent epigastric abdominal pain that radiates into his back. The patient reports that the pain has been ...

2. What is epigastric pain? Epigastric pain is discomfort felt in the upper central abdomen, situated below the ribs. Potential triggers for this pain include indigestion, gastritis, or other ...

Acute abdominal pain can be categorized in multiple ... have cholecystitis have symptoms of right upper quadrant or epigastric pain with tenderness over the gallbladder. Other signs may be absent ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Stomach cramps can affect anyone and often result from gas, indigestion, ...

The patient had a several-year history of epigastric abdominal pain with frequent ED visits for exacerbations of pain. He had been admitted 3 weeks before presentation because of recurrent ...

The typical presentation of small bowel obstruction is abdominal pain, vomiting without diarrhea, and constipation, but a minority of patients may present atypically, without pain, vomiting ...