The dangerous disease can make you have to cut your leg

Dr. Le Thanh Phong, Vascular Thoracic Thoracic Department, Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, said studies showed that 2-5% of people with venous insufficiency of the lower limbs originated from the static compression syndrome. pelvic vessels. In this group of patients, treatment of varicose veins in the usual way will never go away.

The disease manifests itself by foot pain, mainly in the left leg with other unpleasant sensations such as fatigue, severe, feeling of crawling, cramps, increased when walking and falling when lying high, attached. It is the condition of leg swelling, red and blue veins floating under the skin or ulcers in the ankle.

In particular, if there are severe complications, patients with necrosis may have to cut their legs, even leading to pulmonary embolism, causing death.

Legs of patients with varicose veins before and after stent intervention.(Photo: Doctor provided).

In the past, pelvic compression syndrome was treated by surgery. This is a big, complicated surgery, losing a lot of blood and causing pain. Today, the development of intravascular intervention, this syndrome can be cured by ballooning and placing a vein (stent) just through a needle stab in the thigh. After a few hours of surgery, patients can go back and leave the hospital during the day.

In the middle of 2015, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy was registered with the Ministry of Health for the first time to implement the technique of treating pelvic compression syndrome through intravascular intervention. Through a needle stab into the femoral vein, the pinched vein will be heated and then placed into the vein. When blood flow to the heart is no longer hindered, the effects of pinching will not appear or improve significantly when it occurs.

About 20 patients have been treated according to this method since the Ministry of Health approved it. The results of monitoring up to now show that the treatment effect is clear, the quality of life of patients is significantly improved and stable.

The successful application of the heating method and the placement of stent to treat pelvic compression syndrome , opens a new direction for the treatment of other vein-related diseases such as post-thrombosis syndrome, static occlusion syndrome. motherboard on .