Which department should I go to for lower extremity venous thrombosis?

Lower limb vein thrombosis is a relatively common disease. When this symptom occurs, you should go to the hospital in time for anticoagulant and thrombolytic treatment. Generally, you can go to the vascular surgery department for treatment. Lower limb vein thrombosis is relatively harmful to middle-aged and elderly people, especially the elderly are prone to lower limb vein thrombosis. In addition, for people with hemiplegia, this disease is often easily induced. Pregnant women in the late pregnancy should also strengthen prevention.

Who will have lower limb venous thrombosis?

1. Elderly people are more susceptible to deep vein thrombosis in the lower extremities.

As we age, the aging of our blood vessel walls becomes more serious. The aged vascular endothelium is rough and uneven, which can easily cause platelets to adhere to the rough endothelium surface, releasing coagulation substances, which in turn cause red blood cells to aggregate and form blood clots. In addition, the blood viscosity of the elderly is higher than that of middle-aged and young people. In addition, the elderly have reduced activity and lower blood flow rate, which also contributes to the formation of blood clots.

Most hemiplegia is caused by cerebral arteriosclerosis, which makes the arterial intima uneven and prone to thrombosis, leading to occlusion of cerebral arteries and ischemia of brain tissue. These patients also have high cholesterol and blood lipids in their blood, which are important factors causing hypercoagulable blood state. Hypercoagulable blood state is naturally also an important cause of deep vein thrombosis in the lower limbs. In addition, after hemiplegia, the patient is bedridden for a long time, which further slows down the blood flow. At the same time, the venous lining of these patients will also become rough and uneven, which constitutes the three major elements of thrombosis. Naturally, the proportion of deep vein thrombosis in the lower limbs is also relatively high. 3. Women in late pregnancy and postpartum women

We have already introduced the reasons why pregnant women are prone to deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs. As long as the uterus enlarges to the point where the abdominal pressure increases, it can cause deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs. When the uterus enlarges to the point where it compresses the inferior vena cava and iliac veins, the incidence of deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs will increase significantly. The period of 1 to 2 months after delivery is also a high incidence period for deep vein thrombosis in the lower limbs. Deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremities is associated with the use of large amounts of hemostatic drugs after delivery and too little activity during the postpartum recovery period. In the vast rural areas of our country, the period after childbirth is called "confinement". The mother is often locked in the room and not allowed to go out, or even bedridden, which naturally reduces her activity level. The blood circulation rate slows down, which constitutes a factor in thrombosis. Another reason is that after childbirth, in order to increase milk production, people eat a lot of fat foods, which increases blood viscosity.

In addition to the above people who are prone to deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs, patients after major abdominal surgery and lower limb joint surgery are also prone to deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs. In addition to the fact that deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs is prone to occur after abdominal surgery as introduced in Question 106, there is a lot of data showing that deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs is also prone to occur after lower limb bone and joint surgery, with the rate being as high as 50% or more. 5. People who take contraceptive pills for a long time

Oral contraceptives can increase the coagulation factors in the blood and reduce the activity of antithrombin, making thrombosis more likely to occur. The above is an introduction about who will suffer from lower limb venous thrombosis. Do you understand it through the above introduction? We hope that our introduction can help you understand the causes of this disease and allow you to take relevant preventive measures in your life. For more treatment questions, you can directly consult online experts.