What is Acute Pancreatitis?

Acute pancreatitis is a variety of factors caused the pancreatic enzyme was activated in the pancreas of pancreatic tissue caused by their own digestion, edema, hemorrhage or necrosis of the inflammatory response. Clinical symptoms include acute abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever and increased blood such as the characteristics of trypsin. Severity of lesions ranging from mild cases to the main pancreatic edema common clinical features; self-limiting illness often has a good prognosis, also known as mild acute pancreatitis. A few severe cases of pancreatic hemorrhage and necrosis, often with secondary infection, peritonitis and shock and other complications, mortality is high, known as severe acute pancreatitis.

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