Diagnostic and emergency assistance to the syndrome of "acute abdomen"

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS

• ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS
• Acute cholecystitis - an acute inflammation of the gallbladder.
• ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS
• The main causes of acute cholecystitis:
• cholelithiasis;
• Violation of the vascularization of the gallbladder, bile ducts and duodenum;
• lymphatic, hematogenous, or contact infection of the gallbladder.

CLASSIFICATION

• CLASSIFICATION
• Acute cholecystitis is divided into:
• catarrh;
• abscess;
• gangrenous.
• On prehospital stage the differential diagnosis of these forms is not always possible, so appropriate
• distinguish two groups of patients:
• patients with acute cholecystitis complicated;
• patients with acute uncomplicated cholecystitis.
• Among the complicated forms of acute cholecystitis release:
• jaundice;
• suppurative cholangitis;
• peritonitis;
• aboutcystic infiltration and abscess;
• empyema of the gall bladder;
• perforation;
• combination with acute pancreatitis;
• biliary fistula.