What is arterial embolism

Update Date: 2021-04-12 Source: Network

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The arteries of the body transport oxygen and nutrition, and are very powerful. In human body activity, obese people are prone to suffer from arterial embolism. Let's share the relevant knowledge about arterial embolism.

What is arterial embolism

First of all, acute arterial embolism refers to the embolus coming from the heart, proximal artery wall, or other sources rushing into and embolizing the branch artery with smaller diameter at the distal end with arterial blood flow, and then causing ischemic necrosis of the organs or limbs supplied by the artery, which is more common in the lower limbs, and in severe cases, it will eventually lead to amputation.

Then the patients with acute arterial embolism mostly complained of severe pain in the affected limb. The location of the pain mainly depends on the location of the embolism. Generally, the pain in the affected limb far away from the acute arterial embolism is aggravated during the activity. With the formation and extension of secondary thrombosis, the pain plane can develop to the proximal.

Finally, because the nervous tissue is very sensitive to ischemia, the sensory and motor disorders of the affected limb appear in the early stage of acute arterial embolism. There is a sock shaped sensory loss area in the distal end of the affected limb, a hypoesthesia area in the proximal end, and a hypersensitivity area in the proximal end. The level of hypoesthesia area is lower than that of arterial embolism. In addition, the affected limb has muscle weakness, paralysis and different degrees of hand and foot drop. When muscle necrosis finally appears and motor function is completely lost, amputation can only be taken at this time to end the pain. Therefore, early detection and early treatment are needed to avoid such bad results.

matters needing attention

People with arterial embolism should not eat stimulating food, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, drink more water, keep a good sleep habit, pay attention to bed rest, keep a good mood and take active treatment.