No disease passes for the body without a trace. Of course, timely detection and appropriate treatment most often helps to prevent severe consequences, but quite often they can not be completely avoided. So, for example, pancreas disease - pancreatitis, can provoke irreversible changes and even death, while each of its types entails its complications.
Acute pancreatitis is characterized by a fairly rapid spread of inflammation, which causes the death of pancreatic cells. It appears in various forms - edema, acute edema, hemorrhages, acute pancreatic necrosis, acute cholecystopancreatitis or purulent pancreatitis. The degree of defeat, however, will be somewhat different, but the established and confirmed diagnosis - acute pancreatitis - is a signal to begin treatment as soon as possible.
Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory process that develops slowly, but the consequences are also serious. In addition, slowing down the process leads to the fact that the fact of cell death of the pancreas can sometimes be detected quite late. The situation is aggravated by the fact that chronic pancreatitis is not always a complication after an inefficiently treated acute, and often self-induced disease. In this case, cells do not die immediately, dying occurs with the same frequency with which exacerbations of the pancreas disease alternate with periods of remission.
The greatest danger is in reactive pancreatitis. First and foremost, this is due to the fact that such a disease does not manifest itself, but lets you know by violations from the organs of the digestive system that are nearby. Because of the wrong diagnosis, the patient is often treated with these organs, and in the meantime, the dying of the pancreas begins and actively develops at the cellular level. Complexity is also in the fact that the treatment requires not only the pancreas, but the entire gastrointestinal system, which increases the time of elimination of the disease, and, consequently, the degree of death. In this case, the situation can be improved only as early as possible detection of the disease and the conduct of effective treatment.