anasarca

Introduction

Generalized edema

Etiology

• heart failure
• hepatic cirrhosis
• nephrotic syndrome
• protein-losing enteropathy -inflammatory bowel disease
  • systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Menetriers disease
  • eosinophilic gastroenteritis
  • celiac disease
• severe malnutrition (kwashiorkor)
• hypothyroidism (myxedema)
• Blastocystis hominis

Pathology

• disruption of the balance of hydrostatic & oncotic pressures or increase capillary permeability

Laboratory

• serum albumin is low
• albuminuria may be present

More general terms

• edema (swelling, tumefaction, tumescence)