Diagnostic finding
Decreased Albumin
A reduction of serum albumin concentration below the reference range (35 to 54 g/L), associated with hypo-oncotic states and edema.
Causes
Impaired production (liver failure, malnutrition, malabsorption)
Increased loss (kidney disease with nephrotic syndrome, gastrointestinal loss due to protein-losing enteropathy, skin loss due to severe burns)
Redistribution (systemic inflammation, sepsis, heart failure)
Also known as: Hypoalbuminaemia, Hypoalbuminemia, Low Albumin
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute liver failure
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Amyloidosis
- Ascites
- Celiac disease
- Cholangitis
- Cholecystitis
- Choledocholithiasis
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Gallbladder cancer
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Hypervolemia
- Hyponatremia
- Menetriers disease
- Pleural effusion
- Preeclampsia
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Pseudomembranous colitis
- Renal failure
- Tuberculosis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Viral hepatitis
- Whipple's disease
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.