Differential diagnosis of patient's presentation with non-specific symptoms and ascites
| Infections | • Tuberculosis |
| • Viral hepatitis A, B, C | |
| • Leishmaniasis | |
| • Histoplasmosis | |
| Neoplasia | • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of liver |
| • Primary effusion lymphoma | |
| • Carcinoma of the pancreas | |
| • Carcinoma of the stomach | |
| Drug induced | • Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors |
| Others | • Budd-Chiari syndrome |
| • Cardiovascular causes—for example, right heart failure or constrictive pericarditis | |
| • Nephrotic syndrome |