How serious is gallstone pancreatitis?

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I'm anxious to know

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oooo, the locusts are starting to buzzz.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Not serious enough

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately he's got a lot of gall.

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The major causes are long-standing alcohol consumption and biliary stone disease.
In developed countries, the most common cause of acute pancreatitis is alcohol abuse.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My aunt was diagnosed with this last fall. As her surgeon was removing her gall bladder, he discovered a tumor on her pancreas. She died in less than a month. She was an alcohol abuser, by the way. I don't know if the tumor was related to the drinking and pancreatitis or not. In her case, it happened very quickly.

― Skottie, Friday, 5 March 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I'm sorry about your aunt, Skottie. I just want John Ashcroft to die, that's all

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Donna. The thing is, I'm not sure if the cancer and the pancreatitis were related or not. It may not be relevant to the thread at all. BUT WHO KNOWS?

― Skottie, Friday, 5 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=5&u=/ap/ashcroft_hospitalized

This story says the cause is a gallstone (um, thus gallstone pancreatis, I guess) not alcohol abuse.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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