Findings Associateded with Organic Etiology

• > 400 cc/day

• >5 kg weight loss

• < 3 months

• Rapid Onset

• Continual

• Nocturnal

• Elevated ESR

• Anemia

• ↓ Albumin

• Presence of ≥ 3 has a specificity approximately 90%

• Donowitz et al NEJM 3/16/95 Vol 332: 725-729