Acute pancreatitis - acute inflammation of the pancreas.
ETIOLOGY PATHOGENESIS
Causes of acute pancreatitis:
alcohol and spicy or fatty foods;
cholelithiasis;
trauma of the pancreas;
nontraumatic strictures of the pancreatic ducts;
duodenal ulcer disease (ulcers, duodenostasis).
CLASSIFICATION
CLASSIFICATION
Acute pancreatitis is expedient to classify the clinical course at:
easy
average;
Heavy
Acute destructive pancreatitis (ie pancreatic necrosis) is the phase over:
Enzymatic phase (first 5 days of illness) is characterized by the formation of pancreatic and development of endotoxemia.
In the reactive phase (the 2nd week of illness) is formed by reaction of the body in the form of pancreatic peripancreatic infiltration.
In the phase of sequestration (3rd week or more) is shaping seizures and rejection of necrotic tissue:
- Aseptic sequestration (without infection) - the formation of cysts of the pancreas; - Septic sequestration (with infection) - the development of septic complications.
