Assertion: ascites's cause | /r/HasProperty | abdominal infection
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text: If not, (a low SAAG) then the cause is peritoneal (=abdominal infection or bowel perforation or malignancy, etc) and has nothing to do with the liver or the heart.
text: Multiple causes have been described, with the most common causes being abdominal malignancy (hepatoma, small bowel lymphoma, small bowel angiosarcoma, and retroperitoneal lymphoma), cirrhosis (≤0.5% of patients with ascites from cirrhosis may have chylous ascites), and trauma after abdominal surgery in developed countries and account for over two-thirds of all cases, whereas chronic infections like tuberculosis and filariasis account for the majority of the cases in developing countries .