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Symptoms of disease - pain in the upper quadrant

Pain in the upper quadrant can be a symptom of many diseases.

Which diseases there is pain in the upper quadrant

In the right hypohondrium a person has body organs such as the liver, gall bladder, part of the intestine, the right part of the diaphragm. Disease or trauma of these bodies gives you the pain in the right hypochondrium, and in the upper part of the abdomen. The intensity and severity of pain will depend on what is happening and where. The pain in the right hypochondrium can be with the inflammation of the liver (hepatitis). Infectious agents, who often attack the liver, it is viruses. Hence the so-called viral hepatitis. There are three main types: viral hepatitis A, b, C. People usually become ill with viral hepatitis And after the swallow contaminated waste food or water. Hepatitis b is particularly common among homosexuals, drug users and those who was with them in close contact. Hepatitis C is almost always transmitted through transfusion of contaminated blood, medical needles and products containing blood. Particularly common among drug addicts. Various chemical agents and medications can also damage the liver because of its toxicity. This is the so-called toxic hepatitis. The most dangerous of the kernel to the liver is alcohol. With regular abuse of alcohol develop alcoholic hepatitis. The liver may suffer and in heart failure, when the heart muscle bad pumping the blood, comes through the heart. Part of it will get stuck in the lungs and there is a lack of breathing, as part of the stagnates in the liver, stretching it and causes pain.

The pain in the right hypochondrium may be associated with the gall bladder. It should be noted that the bile in the body plays an important role. Bile, which is formed in the liver that helps digest food. Excess bile is stored in the gall bladder. And if you eat a lot of fatty food, we need large amounts of bile to digest fats. Therefore, gall bladder injects its contents into the intestines. Infection, poor liver function or stones in the gall bladder is often responsible for the pain in the right chest and in the right upper part of the abdomen. In the stomach there is also another important body is the pancreas. The pancreas or pancreas) is a glandular organ, which is located deep in the abdomen, which secretes digestive enzymes, juices and insulin. The pancreas is pulled out from right to left. The "head" of the glands in the upper right quadrant, the "body" crosses the midline of the abdomen, and the "tail" is located in the upper-left quadrant. The most frequent cause of pancreatic pain is inflammation (pancreatitis), which is particularly prone alcoholics and people suffering from the diseases of the gall bladder.

Attack of acute pancreatitis has a number of peculiarities. First, the attack is very painful, is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, profuse sweating. The pain gives the right in the back. Increases in the situation of lying, and easier patients getting sitting with tilting forward. Diagnosis usually requires the confirmation of the laboratory analysis to determine the content of some enzymes, allocated damaged gland.

Sometimes the pain in the right hypochondrium and in the right upper quadrant causes renal pathology. Kidneys are located at the sides. One kidney on each side of your body, so that the kidneys disease usually causes pain in the side and back. If the right kidney is infected, it is formed abscess, abscess, or are there rocks, the resulting pain may be felt under the right chest and in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, as well as in the back.

The pain in the right hypochondrium may be due to the fact that the Appendix is located under the liver. For left inflammation of the lungs can also be observed such symptoms.

At diseases of a liver and bile passages the pain is localized in the right hypohondrium and may be different in nature. In one case, the pain stupid and long-term, and in the other - spasmodic, intense. The pain gives the right shoulder and right shoulder blade. Long-term dull pain are typical for chronic cirrhosis, hepatitis, portal hypertension. Colicky pains are the names of the bilious and hepatic colic and are characteristic for the attack of cholelithiasis. Such pain may provotsyrovtsa the consumption of fatty foods and jolting ride.

Other causes of pain in the right podreberie:

- Liver adenoma
- Hepatic deficiency
- Cancer of the gallbladder
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma liver
- Secondary biliary cirrhosis of the liver
- Cholelithiasis
- Globular fatty liver
- Acute viral hepatitis
- Acute cholecystitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Cardiac cirrhosis of the liver
- Ampullary stenosis
- Toxic liver damage
- Liver transplantation: the rejection of the transplant
- Empyema of the gall bladder
- Duodenal ulcer
- Liver abscess
- Echinococcosis of the liver

Pain in the left hypochondrium. In the left upper quadrant contains the spleen, stomach, pancreas, bowel loops (as, indeed, everywhere in the stomach) and the left part of the aperture. Pain in left upper quadrant may be associated with the spleen. The spleen is very close lies to the surface of the body. The main work of the spleen is to remove the red blood cells from the blood, after their normal lives within 120 days. She catches them, destroys, after which their components transferred to the bone marrow, where the formation of new blood cells.

In a number of diseases spleen increases, stretched the capsule, and it causes pain. Due to the fact that the spleen is located close to the surface of the body, it is subject to rupture. Causes of rupture of the spleen may be injuries and diseases such as infectious mononucleosis. In this disease the spleen becomes enlarged and soft texture. And all of this increases the chance of it breaking. Sometimes enlarged spleen ruptures in itself. Telltale sign of rupture of the spleen, in addition to the pain and sensitivity in the relevant field, is the blueness of the skin around the navel (due to the accumulation of blood).

Pain in the left hypochondrium can give stomach. Anything that irritates the mucous membrane of the stomach, causing gastritis (inflammation of the stomach) or functional dyspepsia, may cause pain. Often the pain is aching in nature, often accompanied by nausea and even vomiting. Antacids drugs prescribed by your doctor, will provide assistance. In General, only a doctor can precisely tell that you have. Pain in the stomach may be at a stomach ulcer and of the cancer. By performing a number of laboratory studies and surveys (including endoscopic), the doctor finally put your diagnosis and paint the treatment. Pain in the left hypochondrium (upper left quadrant) can be linked to diaphragmatic hernia. In the diaphragm, which separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity, there is a hole, which passes through the esophagus on the way to the stomach.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the upper quadrant

• Gastroenterologist
• Infectious disease physician

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