Acute gall bladder (Acute cholecystitis)

Acute gallbladder inflammation is inflammation of the gallbladder wall, which usually occurs because of stones or sand in the bile duct or gallbladder neck. Symptoms are sudden, extraordinary pain that is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, chills and fever.

Sometimes, acute gallbladder inflammation can be encountered in patients who have no stones or sand. Such inflammation may be due to some serious disease and it can be a gallbladder or bile duct tumors. There are also some less common causes of blockage of bile ducts or gallbladder neck. Here we should mention the blockage as a result of damage created during gall bladder surgery in bile duct, then when the bile ducts pass through the chronically diseased pancreas. Less common causes of blockage of bile duct and gallbladder inflammation can be parasitic infections.