Right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain refers to discomfort in the upper right region of your abdomen, which may be felt beneath or behind your lower ribs. Pain in the RUQ can range from person to person ...

There are compelling reasons to use CT in the diagnosis of right lower quadrant pain, particularly in the elderly. The accuracy of CT in suspected appendicitis (in a series of 100 consecutive ...

The patient reports a 6-day history of right upper quadrant pain that is worse when she coughs, moves, laughs, or takes a deep breath and is associated with nausea but no vomiting. She notes some ...

A 52-year-old man with a history of coronary disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and amphetamine abuse presents to the emergency department with left upper quadrant (LUQ) abdominal pain that ...

Some women describe a headache, some visual changes, some upper quadrant pain, they'll describe, but many times, women don't have any symptoms whatsoever.

Dyspnea on exertion is from reduced right ventricular cardiac output. Peripheral edema and right upper quadrant pain from hepatic congestion can occur. The murmur of tricuspid regurgitation is ...

Patients with tricuspid stenosis will present with dyspnea on exertion and other signs of right and left heart failure, as well as peripheral edema and right upper quadrant pain from hepatic ...