Vascular surgery is a late start but the fastest growing discipline in recent years, and it is still only available in tertiary hospitals in big cities. Therefore, most patients and even doctors from other departments do not know what diseases can be treated by vascular surgery. What symptoms should be seen in vascular surgery. For this reason, a brief introduction to facilitate the majority of patients: 1. The scope of treatment of vascular surgery: simply put, it is all the vascular diseases of the whole body except intracranial vessels and heart, including stenosis and occlusion of arteries and veins, aneurysm, vascular malformation, thromboembolism, vascular tumor, vasculitis, varicose veins, venous thrombosis, etc. Guo Lianrui, Department of Vascular Surgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University 2. Common symptoms and possible diseases of vascular surgery Symptoms ——- disease intermittent claudication of lower limbs, nocturnal foot pain, foot ulcers, foot gangrene ——– lower limb atherosclerosis occlusion, diabetic foot, thrombo-occlusive vasculitis
Sudden limb pain, cold ——- Acute arterial embolism
Dizziness, cerebral ischemia, stroke
——- carotid artery stenosis, vertebral artery stenosis
sudden onset of chest and back pain with hypertension ——– aortic coarctation
sudden onset of lower limb edema
——- deep vein thrombosis
Lower extremity swelling, sudden onset of chest pain, dyspnea
—— pulmonary embolism
Pulsatile abdominal mass – abdominal aortic aneurysm
Hypertension in a young patient ——– Renal artery stenosis, thoracoabdominal aortic stenosis,
aortitis
pulseless upper extremity ——— subclavian artery stenosis occlusion, polyarteritis grandis
varicose veins
chronic lower extremity edema ——– varicose veins, lower extremity deep venous valve insufficiency