As the saying goes, "After hurting your muscles and bones for a hundred days", most people will choose to rest in peace once their waist and legs are injured. But if you "rest in peace", you must also be wary of "blood clots" coming!
Ms. Chen, Nanjing, is 64 years old. Late at night not long ago, she suddenly felt chest tightness in , , asthma, difficulty breathing. Her symptoms still did not relieve after getting up in the morning. She immediately went to the nearby community hospital for treatment. After checking the electrocardiogram, serum troponin and other indicators, the doctor in the community hospital considered that it belonged to " acute myocardial infarction ". After the preliminary treatment, he immediately contacted the 120 ambulance to transfer Ms. Chen to the emergency room of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
After the emergency department doctor receives the treatment, he will review the relevant indicators again and immediately notify the cardiologist for consultation. After clarifying the examination results, Ms. Chen was received and treated by the cardiology ward. After careful care of the medical staff, Ms. Chen was finally discharged from the hospital and the re-examination result was good.
But for the sudden onset of the disease, Ms. Chen has been trying to find the cause. Not long before the onset of the disease, Ms. Chen suffered injuries to her left leg, knee and waist, and she had been sleeping at home for inconvenience in movement. During the examination in the hospital, it was found that Ms. Chen's lower limb vein was thrombosis. Based on these conditions, the doctor speculated that Ms. Chen's deep vein thrombosis in the lower limb caused by long-term lying still, causing pulmonary embolism .
Pulmonary embolism is a general term for a group of diseases or clinical syndromes that cause pulmonary circulation and right heart dysfunction by endogenous or exogenous embolism blocking the pulmonary artery or its branches, including pulmonary thromboembolic disease, fat embolism, amniotic fluid embolism , air embolism , tumor embolism, etc. Pulmonary thromboembolic disease is the most common type of pulmonary embolism, and the embols that cause pulmonary thromboembolic disease are mainly thrombus from the deep vein.
In addition, deep vein thrombosis is the third most common cardiovascular disease in the world and is one of the important causes of unintended death in patients. The lungs are both the organ of gas exchange, as well as filtering organs and immune organs . After embolization and blocking pulmonary blood vessels, the vascular resistance of increases, gas exchange disorders, and the heart's blood excretion is reduced. Severe can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden death of .
There are no specific clinical manifestations of pulmonary embolism. Common symptoms include dyspnea , chest pain, fainting, coughing of blood, etc., which can also be manifested as palpitations, palpitations, dizziness, fatigue, . Doctors remind that if you experience dyspnea or fainting due to unknown reasons in daily life, or if you have chest tightness or difficulty breathing after surgery, you must be vigilant. There may be no obvious signs in the lungs during physical examinations, and you need to highly suspect the possibility of pulmonary embolism.
How to prevent pulmonary embolism:
If you want to avoid pulmonary embolism, changing your bad lifestyle is one of the best ways, such as not sitting for a long time, quitting smoking and drinking; avoid taking birth control pills for a long time. If a patient is diagnosed with varicose veins in the lower limbs, he or she should wear elastic stockings scientifically for prevention. Patients with a history of trauma can use drugs to prevent deep vein thrombosis in the lower limbs after fracture or general surgery. High-risk populations must undergo regular examinations.
After the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, the patient should actively undergo anticoagulant treatment and cannot "fish for three days and dry the net for two days". Take medicine as precepts and review it in time. Once the body has discomfort symptoms, be sure to seek medical treatment immediately. Once the thrombosis problem turns to chronic, it will not be completely cured.
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