What is embolism

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Many people don't know much about arterial embolism. In fact, the so-called 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 the arterial blood flow, and then causing the ischemic necrosis of the organs or limbs supplied by this artery, which is more common in the lower limbs, and in severe cases will eventually lead to amputation. So this disease can be large or small, if not handled properly, it will be more serious. Let's further understand it!

What is embolism

First: if it is a patient with exercise embolism, what are the symptoms? First of all, most patients with exercise embolism complain 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 is far away from the acute arterial embolism, and the pain intensifies during the activity.

Second, because the nerve tissue is very sensitive to ischemia, so in the early stage of arterial embolism, there are sensory and motor disorders of the affected limb. 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.

Third: because of the secondary thrombosis on the basis of arterial embolism, heparin and other drugs can be used in the early stage of the disease for anticoagulant treatment to prevent the aggravation of thrombosis. Antiplatelet therapy not only inhibits platelet adhesion, aggregation and release, but also relieves vasospasm.

matters needing attention

Arterial embolism is a disease that can easily worsen if it is not paid attention to. If in the early stage of arterial embolization, the treatment effect and time are very simple, but in the later stage it becomes more and more difficult.