Acute pancreatitis is a severe inflammation of the pancreas, a destructive nature that is fraught with multiple serious complications to all systems of the human body.
In some cases, pancreatitis can lead to an exacerbation of cholecystitis. Such a disease as acute pancreatic cholecystitis and its aggravation arises from the inflammatory process in the patient's gallbladder. After all, the gallbladder, as well as the pancreas, actively participates in the process of digestion. Therefore, any violations in the work of the digestive system affect this organ in the first place.
As a rule, pancreatitis is characterized by a strong pain syndrome arising in the right hypochondrium and systematically spreading to the upper part of the peritoneum, sometimes giving to the neck or heart region. In the development of acute pancreatic cholecystitis, pain resembling biliary colic can be accompanied by severe vomiting with bile content, nausea and other signs of poisoning. In some cases, a patient with an acute form of pancreatitis with complications, in the form of exacerbation of destructive inflammation in the gallbladder, can experience chills and a strong increase in body temperature( up to 40 ° C).
Usually the process of exacerbation of pancreatitis and cholecystitis lasts several days, but in the absence of proper treatment it can be very long( up to several months) and go into a chronic form.
There are two main types of dysfunction of the gallbladder: catarrhal and purulent type of disease. When the catarrhal disease is exacerbated, the process of recovery is quite fast. But the purulent form of cholecystitis, with exacerbation is very dangerous and difficult to treat, and can also easily go into peritonitis, due to perforation of the gallbladder walls.
This complication of pancreatitis, like exacerbation of purulent or catarrhal cholecystitis, is very dangerous for the patient, therefore requires timely qualified medical treatment and emergency care in the early stages of the disease. In this case, it is very important to consult a doctor at the first symptoms, because in many ways successful treatment depends on the speed and effectiveness of relieving the exacerbation.