Complications of arterial disease

Lower limb vascular diseases include lower limb arterial and venous diseases, which cause discomfort, pain, affect daily activities, and more seriously, cause necrosis, ulcers requiring amputation, causing many dangerous complications and even death.

According to statistics, lower limb arterial disease is affecting more than 200 million people worldwide. Meanwhile, about 30% of the adult population has problems related to hidden varicose veins, this rate increases in the elderly population.

Deep vein thrombosis is also a common disease that can easily lead to venous obstruction, the third most common cause of death from cardiovascular disease, after myocardial infarction and stroke.

Doctor Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, Cardiology Department, Tam Anh General Hospital, Hanoi, said that the rate of patients with lower limb arterial and venous diseases visiting Tam Anh General Hospital is quite high, but this disease has not received the attention and awareness of prevention from the people.

Lower limb arterial disease.

Lower limb arterial disease: 90% of the causes are due to atherosclerosis leading to narrowing of the arteries, blockage and reduced blood flow to organs and parts (skin, nerves) downstream. If anemia is not treated promptly, it can lead to muscle atrophy, paralysis, limb necrosis, infectious complications and even death.

The main risk factors for the disease are cigarette smoking, tobacco use, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension and hyperhomocysteinemia, which increase the development of lower limb arterial disease as well as other atherosclerotic arterial diseases.

Varicose veins of the lower extremities occur when the vein walls and venous valves are weakened, blood does not move back to the heart as usual. Blood flows back and stagnates in the veins downstream, causing the veins to dilate and become tortuous.

In mild cases, varicose veins cause tingling, numbness, and pain in the legs, along with loss of aesthetics. In severe cases, the disease can lead to complications such as blood clots, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism, which are life-threatening.

The disease has many causes originating from living and working postures, standing or sitting in one place for too long, lack of exercise, carrying heavy loads... people who are pregnant many times, give birth many times, obesity, lack of exercise, diet low in fiber and vitamins; valve degeneration in the elderly, phlebitis, congenital valve defects...

Deep vein thrombosis is a blood clot that forms inside a vein. This condition can occur in any vein in the body, but is most common in the veins of the lower extremities.

The most dangerous complication of deep vein thrombosis is pulmonary embolism, which can easily lead to death. Circulatory stasis, increased blood clotting, and damage to the venous endothelium are the main causes of deep vein thrombosis.

According to Dr. Trang, with the development of modern medicine, there are now many measures to screen and treat lower limb vascular diseases, helping patients escape from diseases as well as life-threatening complications.

Medical treatment combined with a scientific diet, healthy lifestyle, and quitting smoking and drinking alcohol provide a good prognosis for the early stages of the disease. In more severe cases, more drastic measures through intervention and surgery are needed.

At Tam Anh General Hospital, varicose veins can be treated with surgery or laser, intravascular radiofrequency or biological glue to completely treat and remove diseased superficial veins. Balloon angioplasty, stent placement, combined intervention with Hybrid surgery or bypass surgery... are applied to cases of lower limb arterial stenosis.

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