Liver cirrhosis with ascites

Liver cirrhosis with ascitesThe cause for ascites always is the egression of fluids into the abdominal cavity.One has to differ between the following causes/types of ascites:

non-inflammatory ascitis: Transsudate in portal hypertension (eg. in liver cirrhosis), heart failure, low colloid osmotic pressure (Hypoalbuminemia, nephrotic syndrome), exudative enteropathy, gastric carcinoma, colon carcinoma, peritoneal carcinomatosis

inflammatory ascites: exsudate (in inflammations)

hemorrhagic ascites: in tuberculous peritonitis, peritoneal carcinomatosis, aftetr a vascular rupture (bleeding into the abdominal cavity)

chylous ascitis: egression of lymph fluids in an impaired drainage of the thoracic duct