Symptoms of gallstone disease

Gall bladder disease

The most common pathological condition associated with a biliary lithiasis. In the course of the stones are formed, which can be located in any part of the biliary ducts.

Gall bladder disease is very common disease. It is more common in women than in men. For most people it is asymptomatic, does not give you any problems. According to statistics, kidney occurs in 15 to 20% of the population, and in patients older than 65 years of age in up to 30%.

Cholelithiasis is the formation of stones in the gall bladder and bile ducts. Favors the formation of gallstones biliary dyskinesia, cholecystitis particular. Dyskinesia is a functional disorder of some nervous movement of internal organs composed of smooth muscle cells, mainly of the gall bladder.

It is expressed synchronize the contractions of interference with current physiological activities and needs of the gastrointestinal tract or the state of relaxation, manifested seizures colic pain, with nausea and vomiting. Dyskinesia promotes the stagnation of bile in the gall bladder and bile ducts, which in turn leads to inflammatory changes and the formation of deposits.

Check with your doctor if your skin or the whites of your eyes become yellowish. However, if there is a sudden, severe pain in the right upper abdomen, nausea, vomiting, or fever, you need immediate assistance.

The main symptoms of gallstones are attacks of acute pain in the right upper quadrant radiating to the shoulder, which occurs during movement of stones (biliary colic). As a result of obstruction by the stone hydrocele cystic duct of the gall bladder is formed, which in the case of infection may move empyema follicle.

Kidney common bile duct causes jaundice mechanical barrier. Treatment of complicated cholelithiasis is always operational.

Cholangitis usually occurs together with inflammation of the gall bladder. If the disease is severe, the patient is high fever, chills and sweats, aching, and spreading around the liver. Quite rarely jaundice. In the chronic form fever is absent or occurs only during exacerbations. Tease may also dull aching pain under the right costal margin.

Suppurative cholangitis occurs together with inflammation of the gall bladder and biliary lithiasis. The clinical manifestation of the disease is enlarged liver, bile ducts containing purulent inflammatory exudate mixed with bile. In more severe cases, numerous small liver abscesses. The patient has a high fever, chills and sweats often.