Ascites in an infant or child

Common: Anasarca; Appendiceal perforation; Biliary atresia; Cardiac disease; Constrictive pericarditis; Erythroblastosis fetalis; Extrahepatic portal vein obstruction; Glomerulonephritis; Hemorrhage; Hydrops fetalis; Hypoproteinemia; Inferior vena cava obstruction; Nephrotic syndrome with hypoproteinemia; Peritonitis; Polycystic liver; Surgery; Trauma; Uremia; Urine ascites; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt
Uncommon: Antitrypsinase deficiency; Galactosemia; Gaucher disease; Hemolytic anemia with ascites; Hydrometrocolpos with rupture and plastic peritonitis; Lysosomal storage disease; Meigs syndrome; Metastatic disease to peritoneum; Neonatal chylous ascites; Perforated Meckel diverticulum; Preduodenal portal vein; Renal vein thrombosis; Ruptured ovarian cyst; Schistosomiasis; Thromboembolism of hepatic veins; Thrombosis of inferior vena cava; Tuberculosis; Tyrosinemia; Wilson disease