Aortic sclerosis?

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Aortosclerosis is a physical condition, it with the growth of people's age, resulting in vascular diseases, if the body is not soft enough, in fact, it is not the precursor of this disease, but also bring some harm to the body. In some patients with Aortosclerosis, the condition of pale or cyanosis of the foot skin is more serious, and eventually it will appear, with black and ulcerative necrosis of the toes. Aortic sclerosis? Let's talk about it

Aortic sclerosis?

Atherosclerosis of limbs: it is more common in the lower limbs, especially in the arteries of the legs. Numbness, chills and intermittent claudication of the lower limbs are caused by the obstruction of blood supply. That is to say, numbness and pain of gastrocnemius muscle lead to spasm when walking, disappear after a short rest, and appear again when walking. Severe patients will have persistent pain, lower extremity arteries, especially the dorsalis pedis artery, its pulsation weakened or disappeared. Gangrene can occur if the lumen of the artery is completely occluded.

Cerebral atherosclerosis: due to cerebral ischemia can cause dizziness, fainting and headache and other symptoms. The formation or rupture of cerebral artery thrombosis can cause cerebrovascular accidents, such as vomiting, headache, vertigo, limb paralysis, sudden loss of consciousness, hemianopia and aphasia. Brain atrophy, will cause dementia, psychosis, mental and memory decline, abnormal behavior, to completely change the character and other symptoms.

Aortic atherosclerosis: atherosclerosis of the aorta, most of which have no specific symptoms. During percussion, it can be found that the aortic voiced area will widen behind the sternum stalk; The second heart sound in the aortic valve area is high and metallic with systolic murmur. Systolic blood pressure will increase, pulse pressure will also widen, radial artery palpation may be similar to pulse acceleration. X-ray examination, can see the aortic node to the upper left protrusion, aortic dilation and distortion, sometimes can see sheet or arc plaque, there are calcic shadow.

matters needing attention

1. Limiting the intake of food cholesterol: reducing low density lipoprotein cholesterol and total cholesterol is the key to the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. Although not all cholesterol in the body comes from food, it is necessary to limit the intake of cholesterol to reduce hypercholesterolemia. 2. Limit the intake of fat: the edible fat includes animal fat and plant fat. The former mainly contains saturated fatty acids. Excessive intake can increase cholesterol, which should be strictly limited to no more than 7% of the total calories per day. Although the latter is unsaturated fatty acid, it should be limited to no more than 20-25g per day because of its high caloric value. Total fat calories do not exceed 30% of total calories.