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Miscellaneous causes

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Other causes of vomiting in adults include:

  • normal physiological response:
    • to stress
    • travel sickness
    • pregnancy - pathological in hyperemesis gravidarum
  • radiation therapy
  • mesenteric arterial occlusion
  • hepatic and biliary disease:
    • cirrhosis
    • acute cholecystitis
  • pancreatic disease:
    • ruptured pancreas
    • acute pancreatitis
  • disseminated malignancy
  • hereditary spherocytosis
  • testicular torsion
  • twisted ovarian cyst

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