Two "hearts" were found A woman is facing the threat of death
Ms. Zheng from Nanping is 45 years old. She has always felt chest tightness in and gasping for breath. After a full body examination in a local hospital, she found that there was a "heart" with a similar head next to her heart!
Hydraulic Surgery Department of Union Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University introduced that Ms. Zheng’s problems have actually been around for a long time, but because of the mild early symptoms, she did not feel particularly strange at all. Until the past three months, she frequently experienced chest tightness and shortness of breath, which made the doctor suspect that there was something wrong with her heart.
After further examination, the doctor found that this "heart" was an aneurysm of growing on the ascending aorta , with a diameter of nearly 100 mm. From the image, looks like another "heart" grew next to the heart. Although the name of this lesion contains the word "tumor", it is not a tumor, but a dangerous vascular lesion formed by pathological dilation of the aortic vascular.
Aortic aneurysm expands nearly 3 times. Doctors accurately "dispose bombs"
Doctors said that because aortic aneurysm tumor is too huge, and the epidermis is stretched to the point where the egg skin is thin, just like a "time bomb". Once it is hit violently, it is easy to rupture, and the blood in the tumor will erupt instantly and die within two minutes. Therefore, the situation is critical and the operation is urgent.
After more than 3 hours of hard work, the doctor finally successfully removed the aortic aneurysm and replaced the abnormal ascending aorta with artificial blood vessels.
Doctor told reporters that the pathological dilation of the aorta of exceeds 50% of the normal blood vessel diameter is an aortic aneurysm . Aortic aneurysm is a large vascular disease that seriously threatens human life and health, and the mortality rate of is high.
It turns out that Ms. Zheng has suffered from hypertension for a long time, but she has never paid attention to the control of blood pressure . The doctor told reporters that the aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, and the entire blood vessel wall is composed of multiple layers of tissue. Under the long-term high blood pressure, the structure of the blood vessel may deform under the impact of the blood flow, and this change process is very hidden.
Deputy Chief Physician of Cardiac Surgery Department of Union Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University Qiu Zhihuang
When the temperature drops sharply in winter, blood vessels will contract and blood pressure will become higher. At this time, cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases are more likely to occur. Therefore, we hereby remind people with high blood pressure that regular physical examinations should be done, and real-time tracking of the progress of the disease should not be careless.
Doctor told reporters that aortic lesions are usually easily found in imaging examinations such as ultrasound and CT. A very small number of patients will experience sudden chest pain and , and they will also have chest and back pain, and often without any preliminary signs. Therefore, early diagnosis and timely treatment are of great significance to reducing postoperative complications and improving the success rate of surgery.
