An acute inflammatory process that leads to necrosis of the pancreatic parenchyma. signs and symptoms include severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and shock. causes include alcohol consumption, presence of gallstones, trauma, and drugs.

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a sudden inflammation of the pancreas. Causes include a gallstone impacted in the common bile duct or the pancreatic duct, heavy alcohol use, systemic disease, trauma, elevated calcium levels, hypertriglyceridemia (with triglycerides usually being very elevated, over 1000 mg/dL), certain medications, hereditary causes and, in children, mumps...