What symptom does carotid artery embolism have

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Arterial embolism, is due to blood clots in the blood vessels condensed into small pieces, blocking the flow of blood. Blood is circulating throughout the body, if blocked, it will cause other dysfunction, which will have a great impact on the body. Patients should pay attention to arterial embolism and treat it in time. Now let's go and see what the symptoms of arterial embolism are.

What symptom does carotid artery embolism have

First, the severity of symptoms is closely related to the speed of disease progression and the number of collateral circulation. The early symptoms were intermittent claudication and the pulsation of the distal artery weakened or disappeared, such as the lesion located in the abdominal aorta iliac artery. Pain may occur in the lower waist, buttocks, iliac, thigh back or calf gastrocnemius. Sometimes with impotence; lesions in the femoral popliteal artery.

Second, pain occurs in the calf muscles. In chronic limb ischemia, skin atrophy, thinning, brightening, osteoporosis, muscle atrophy, hair loss, nail thickening and deformation. In the later stage, there may be resting pain, skin temperature significantly decreased, cyanosis, gangrene and ulcer in the distal limb.

Third: acute arterial embolism without collateral circulation compensation, the disease progress quickly. The typical symptoms of acute arterial embolism are pain, pallor, cold, numbness, dyskinesia and weakening and disappearance of arterial pulse. The severity of the symptoms depends on the location and degree of embolism, the number of secondary thrombosis, and whether there was arteriosclerotic disease causing arterial stenosis before, especially the collateral circulation.

matters needing attention

The above is about the introduction of arterial embolism, I believe you have a certain understanding of this disease through the above introduction. Blood flows in our body at any time. If there is arterial embolism, it will lead to blood blockage. In serious cases, it may cause life-threatening, and patients can't ignore it. If you find that your body has discomfort, you should go to the hospital in time for treatment. I wish you good health.