Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Abdominal distention
Abdominal bloating
HP:0003270
What it means
Distention of the abdomen.
Abdominal distention can be a secondary feature associated with a number of conditions such as bowel obstruction.
Rare diseases that can present with this90
Very common80–99%
24- Achondrogenesis type 1A
- Athyreosis
- Congenital hypothyroidism due to maternal intake of antithyroid drugs
- Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
- Isolated polycystic liver disease
- Junctional epidermolysis bullosa with pyloric atresia
- Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency
- Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
- Megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
- Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy
- Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome
- Oculogastrointestinal muscular dystrophy
- Ovarian fibroma
- Ovarian fibrothecoma
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
- Peritoneal inclusion cyst
- Platyspondylic dysplasia, Torrance type
- Primary effusion lymphoma
- Primary peritoneal carcinoma
- Short rib-polydactyly syndrome, Verma-Naumoff type
- Thyroid ectopia
- Thyroid hemiagenesis
- Thyroid hypoplasia
- Wolman disease
Common30–79%
31- Adiposis dolorosa
- Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
- Atresia of urethra
- Cap polyposis
- Chronic neurovisceral acid sphingomyelinase deficiency
- Chylomicron retention disease
- Combined immunodeficiency-multiple intestinal atresia
- Congenital enterocyte heparan sulfate deficiency
- Congenital tufting enteropathy
- Currarino syndrome
- Donohue syndrome
- Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with pyloric atresia
- Familial visceral myopathy
- Fanconi-Bickel syndrome
- Folinic acid-responsive seizures
- Gallbladder neuroendocrine tumor
- Glucose-galactose malabsorption
- Hirschsprung disease
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Lead poisoning
- Microvillus inclusion disease
- Multicystic dysplastic kidney
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Neuroblastoma
- Pancreatic triacylglycerol lipase deficiency
- Pancreatoblastoma
- Primary hepatic neuroendocrine carcinoma
- Pyknoachondrogenesis
- Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia
- Sepsis in premature infants
- Small bowel atresia
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Abdominal distension · Abdominal swelling · Belly bloating · Bloating · Distended abdomen
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