The cause of ankle swelling and pain in the elderly may be caused by physiological reasons such as maintaining a posture for a long time, or it may be caused by renal diseases such as chronic renal failure, cardiac diseases such as heart failure and other pathological reasons.
1. Physiological reasons: if the edema is unilateral ankle, it may be due to the varicose veins in the lower limbs caused by keeping a posture for a long time, the blood circulation is not good, forming edema, and in serious cases, it may form the venous thrombosis in the lower limbs and be accompanied by pain.
2. Kidney disease: if the pain of bilateral ankle depression edema, it may be caused by diseases, such as chronic renal failure and other kidney diseases may lead to sodium retention, which causes ankle swelling symptoms.
3. Heart disease: When there is a heart dysfunction disease such as heart failure, the resistance to return to the heart increases, which can lead to blood reflux obstruction, stagnation in the ankle, resulting in symptoms of swelling and pain.
In addition to the above reasons, liver diseases such as cirrhosis or liver cancer, malignant tumors, tuberculosis and other diseases may also cause ankle swelling and pain. When the symptoms of ankle swelling and pain appear in elderly patients, they should go to the hospital in time for targeted treatment.