Lower extremity atherosclerosis-occlusive disease (PAD) is caused by the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the lower extremities, resulting in narrowing and occlusion of the lower extremity arteries, which in turn leads to chronic ischemia in the limbs. With the improvement of the overall living standard of the society and the aging of the population, the incidence of lower extremity atherosclerosis occlusive disease is increasing year by year. What are the symptoms of lower extremity atherosclerosis-occlusive disease? The following are the symptoms of lower extremity atherosclerosis occlusive disease. 1, early: patients generally feel that the lower limbs are often cold, numb, leg muscles will appear spasms, commonly known as cramps, because these early lesions are not typical, it is easy to confuse with other diseases. 2, pain after exercise: if ischemia is not improved, continue to develop, medically known as intermittent claudication, is the most common symptom of lower limb atherosclerosis occlusive disease, performance is the patient walking a distance, due to increased muscle oxygen consumption, but insufficient blood supply, causing tissue hypoxia, resulting in spasmodic pain, forced to stop exercise, rest for a while, through the side branch circulation, gradually blood supply After resting for a while, the blood supply is gradually restored again and the pain is relieved, and after exercising again, the pain can recur. The most common pain is in the calf, followed by the hip, thigh, back and foot. With the aggravation of ischemia, the distance where pain appears after the patient walks will become shorter and shorter, from several hundred meters to finally a dozen meters or even a few meters. 3. Pain at rest: Medically known as resting pain, it is a manifestation of severe ischemia in the limbs, that is, the patient will still have insufficient blood supply to the muscles and other tissues when not exercising, and pain will occur, especially at night when the patient is asleep. The pain is aggravated by raising the lower limb and can be relieved by low hanging or light activity, making it difficult for the patient to sleep and eat and nervous. This period suggests that the patient must be actively treated, otherwise further development will enter the necrotic phase. 4.Tissue ischemia and hypoxia eventually lead to necrosis: In this period, the patient’s artery is severely occluded and the collateral circulation is poor, or the complication of arterial thromboembolism. When the symptoms of necrosis are mild, the limbs will have tissue nutritional disorders, skin roughness, flaking or cracking; sweat hair is scarce or falling off; toe (finger) nail growth is slow, thickening, less luster, and a little broken on the foot is very difficult to heal. When the symptoms of necrosis aggravate, the lower limbs appear necrosis, and those with co-infection can have the manifestation of systemic poisoning, even life-threatening, and some patients eventually face amputation.
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