Digestive System Disease and Sudden Death

Qi, Shirui; Wu, Zhongyin; Jia, Heyue; Jin, Bo; Li, Hui; Liu, Chuntao; Chang, Shangqing; Zhu, Haiyan; Zhu, Yating; Lu, Zheng; Li, Peng; Su, Haibin; Xiong, Jiang; Wang, Yu; Guo, Wei; Sun, Gang

Although sudden death caused by digestive system diseases, accounting for about 7% of sudden death diseases, is not common compared with other diseases such as cardiovascular disease, it is also worthy of attention. Among them, sudden death caused by acute pancreatitis is the most common, accounting for 0.2%-0.5% of natural sudden death, and is one of the important causes of non-cardiac sudden death. This chapter mainly focuses on a series of sudden death related digestive system diseases, including ischemic bowel disease, variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in cirrhotic portal hypertension, hepatic encephalopathy, liver failure, acute suppurative cholangitis and acute pancreatitis. This type of disease is characterized by a rapid onset, a rapid progress, and a high mortality rate. Combining typical cases, this chapter describes the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment progress of the above-mentioned diseases that may cause sudden death.