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- Nontraumatic abdominal pain in pregnant patients can have many causes, making it difficult for healthcare providers to diagnose due to symptom overlap with normal pregnancy.
- Concerns about the effects of ionizing radiation on the fetus have led to advancements in medical imaging techniques, aiming to reduce or eliminate its use during pregnancy.
- Current diagnostic practices for pregnant patients largely rely on non-ionizing imaging methods, particularly ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, to ensure safety while effectively identifying potential issues.
Article Abstract
Nontraumatic abdominal pain in the pregnant patient can present a clinician with a variety of diagnostic possibilities. The overlap between signs and symptoms expected in normal pregnancy and these many pathologic possibilities does little to help focus the clinician's diagnostic efforts. Fear of ionizing radiation's effects on the fetus has driven efforts to refine medical imaging algorithms in such a way as to attempt to eliminate its use at all cost. In today's world, we are nearly there. In this review the differential diagnosis of nontraumatic abdominal pain in the pregnant patient will be explored. Of note is the recurring theme that much of what can be done today with regard to diagnostic imaging, both in general and with regard to this specific subset of patients, centers on the use of the non-ionizing modalities of ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
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