What are the special early symptoms of hepatic ascites

In fact, ascites is a common liver disease. Don’t be too afraid of it and worry too much when receiving treatment. As long as ascites is treated in time, it can be cured. The prerequisite is that everyone should know more about its symptoms, which will help to distinguish the disease.

1. Enlarged or shrunken liver: Cirrhosis ascites, especially ascites caused by alcoholic cirrhosis, is often accompanied by enlarged liver, which may shrink in the late stage. In liver cancer, the liver is enlarged and hard as a stone, and the surface may be nodular. When there is acute hepatic vein obstruction, there may be sudden progressive hepatomegaly and rapid growth of cirrhosis ascites.

2. Symptoms of ascites due to cirrhosis accompanied by jaundice, hematemesis, and black stools: Ascites is more common in cirrhosis, liver cancer, and other gastrointestinal tumors. Hematemesis and black stools are typical manifestations of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

3. Chills, fever, abdominal pain, abdominal muscle tension and tenderness: mostly indicate peritonitis caused by various reasons; in acute peritonitis, the abdominal muscles are tense, there is tenderness and rebound pain, and abdominal breathing may weaken or disappear due to pain or abdominal muscle tension.

4. Varicose veins of the abdominal wall: This type is more common in cirrhosis with portal hypertension and obstruction of the portal vein, inferior vena cava or hepatic vein. Portal hypertension in cirrhosis may be accompanied by umbilical varicose veins, and the direction of blood flow in the varicose veins of the lower abdominal wall is from top to bottom.