The heart is a muscular cone-shaped organ, which is the basis of the cardiovascular system, which provides blood flow and has the ability to act automatically. The heart muscle is located in the tendon center of the diaphragm behind the breastbone, between the left and right pleural cavities. Also close are the stomach, liver and pancreas - organs, the disease of which can affect the work of the heart.
Often, patients who turn to a cardiologist with complaints of heart pain and tachycardia, go to the gastroenterologist for the treatment of pancreatitis - the main disease that caused deviations in cardiac activity.
Tachycardia with pancreatitis
With acute inflammation of the pancreas, one of the symptoms that the doctor diagnoses is pathological tachycardia - a rapid heartbeat that exceeds the rate of one hundred beats per minute. The patient can feel the rapid contractions of the heart muscle, and may not be aware of this. In this case, tachycardia can be determined by listening to the pulse and heart.
The main cause of affecting the violation of the heart rhythm with inflammation of the pancreas can be both an intoxication of the body and a febrile state with a high temperature, so a reaction to pain accompanied by anxiety and high emotional stress. Tachycardia can occur with low blood pressure, which is typical of an attack of acute pancreatitis, accompanied by pain shock.
The state of tachycardia with inflammation of the pancreas manifests itself not only in accelerated heartbeat, but also in a feeling of weakness, lack of air, dizziness, a feeling of impending loss of consciousness.
Treatment consists in removing the factors that cause it, that is, the removal of the inflammatory process and the relief of pain.
Extrasystole
Sometimes a patient with a diagnosis of pancreatic inflammation persistently complains of heart pain and irregularities in his rhythm. When examining patients with pancreatitis with this symptomatology, an arrhythmia, called cardiologists extrasystole, is often detected. This phenomenon is based on extrasystoles - premature contraction or excitation of the heart or organ parts, provoked by an impulse originating from different parts of the heart.
There are several variants of manifestation of extrasystole. At a pancreatitis the reflex kind, caused by disease of a pancreas is most often shown. Negative emotions caused by pain syndrome, disturbance of metabolic processes in the myocardium associated with loss of potassium in vomiting and diarrhea can disrupt the rhythm of the heart, causing extrasystole.