Case Reports
Ana Ruth Silva De Araujo, Gabr
Abstract
Crohn’s Disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease that potentially may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Most common clinical aspects include diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss and fatigue, and also extraintestinal manifestations may occur. Despite the varied clinical picture, ascites is very unusual, with few case reports of CD associated with ascites in literature. We present a case from a 27-year-old female patient who developed voluminous ascites and, after diagnostic investigation, CD diagnosis was made. The main cause of ascites was a protein-losing enteropathy.