Aunt "ge" 60 thrombus came close to death in a week

August 5, 2016

Source: the qianjiang evening news

Continuous high temperature, stay in an air-conditioned room watching TV, 60 Zhang Dama feel special. The last ten days, she fell in love with a series, after lunch every day, she sat on the sofa, still, after a few hours. As a result, her leg varicose veins with greatly increased, and trigger a pulmonary embolism, fortunately, family send a hospital in time, otherwise Zhang Dama have life risk.

In fact, as early as 9 days ago Zhang Dama felt little leg varicose veins where the skin is a little red, a little pain, but because it is old, she didn't pay too much attention. Pain worse after a couple of days, right leg vein touch scleroma, his wife to remind her to the hospital to see, but still hot weather turned off Zhang Dama, just use a little for external use, own a massage.

Watch TV, and through the day, until the night before sleeping, Zhang Dama feel very wrong, bosom is frowsty waves. So the family hurriedly sent Zhang Dama to zhejiang province people's hospital emergency department.

The hospital jing-song jiang, director of the vascular surgery after inspection, found Zhang Dama not only the right lower limb varicose vein is filled with blood clots, is more terrible, have a small piece of unexpectedly along the curved vein thrombus, "shopping" in the pulmonary artery, leading to the onset of the acute pulmonary embolism.

"This is a high mortality rate of the dangerous disease." Jing-song jiang team to rescue. Experts in Zhang Dama first one by one to the heart of the inferior vena cava filter, prevent blood clots more fall off into the pulmonary artery, and then use drug dissolved the pulmonary artery thrombosis fast, finally remove blood clots along with the right lower limb varicose vein. After a series of operations, Zhang Dama alert is lifted.

Jing-song jiang, remind, director of varicose veins is very common clinical disease, the incidence of a disease in the adult is more than 15%. In patients of high temperature, if long time without movement, or severe water shortages in the body, easy to happen like Zhang Dama lower limb vascular thrombosis, and even cause lethal pulmonary embolism.

"Inactivity and moisture complement insufficient, direct consequence is the increased blood viscosity, cause intravascular plaque formation, falls off once the plaque, into the pulmonary artery, the rescue is not timely, soon." Jing-song jiang suggested that elderly patients with varicose veins, summer don't stay inside air conditioning room activities for a long time, at the same time to drink water more, don't wait until thirsty to drink.