Clinical symptoms of acute pancreatitis?

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Acute pancreatitis is a common disease in life. More than 80% of the patients are mild, belonging to acute edematous pancreatitis, which can be cured without surgery. About 10% of the patients are severe pancreatitis, belonging to acute hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis, which needs surgical treatment. Due to the different nature and degree of pathological changes of acute pancreatitis, the clinical manifestations are different. The symptoms of pure water swelling pancreatitis are relatively mild, while hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis is acute and severe. Clinical symptoms of acute pancreatitis? Let's talk about it

Clinical symptoms of acute pancreatitis?

The most important manifestation of acute pancreatitis is abdominal pain, often after a lot of drinking or overeating, severe pain, persistent dull pain, knife like pain or colic, edema type patients with abdominal pain can be relieved, bleeding necrosis type patients with severe pain lasting for a long time, it should be noted that a small number of elderly and weak patients sometimes have mild abdominal pain, or even no abdominal pain.

Nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension are often accompanied by nausea and vomiting at the beginning of a disease, sometimes very frequently. Patients with severe vomiting can spit out bile or coffee like liquid. At the same time, patients with abdominal distension and bleeding necrosis often have obvious abdominal distension or paralytic intestinal obstruction.

Febrile edematous pancreatitis, will be accompanied by moderate fever, a few accompanied by high fever, generally lasting 3 to 5 days, hemorrhagic necrosis fever is relatively high, persistent, especially in the pancreas or abdominal cavity with secondary infection, is often manifested as high fever. Shock is limited to hemorrhagic and necrotic type, which is mainly caused by insufficient effective circulation capacity.

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There are three types of disease development process, only had a history of acute attack, later did not relapse, but inflammation persisted. There have been repeated acute attacks, but not completely recovered after each attack, some patients do not have a clear attack of abdominal pain, this type is also known as chronic painless pancreatitis.