November 13, 2012 09:49 Source: Fuzhou Evening News Reporter Anzi correspondent Liu Xueqiang Newspaper a few days ago, attached to a hospital vascular surgery ward to a very strange middle-aged female patients, she wore thick cotton clothes, but playing barefoot, night she must be feet, hands soaked in icy water before you can sleep, this situation has lasted nearly two years. Doctors inquired about the patient’s medical history and learned that the patient often felt burning pain at the ends of the limbs, especially the palms and soles, with localized congestion, redness, sweating and hot and humid, and often persistent hidden pain, which was intensified by paroxysms. Prof. Zhang Jinchi of Vascular Surgery Department, after careful and detailed examination, believed that the patient suffered from a rare disease: erythema gangrenosum. Prof. Zhang used laparoscopic lumbar sympathectomy to treat the patient and achieved good results. This marks a new level of endoscopic minimally invasive surgery in the vascular surgery department of the hospital. According to Prof. Zhang Jinchi of the Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, this is a kind of vascular dysfunction disease, which occurs in young people, among which women are the most common. Prof. Zhang used laparoscopic lumbar sympathectomy to treat the disease, and after careful surgical arrangement, only 3 small holes were opened in the patient’s waist, and the lumbar sympathetic ganglion was removed smoothly. After the surgery, the patient recovered well and was able to walk on the ground on the second day after the surgery. What is even more amazing is that the patient didn’t need to soak his hands and feet in ice water to sleep, and his symptoms improved significantly, and he was discharged from the hospital soon after the surgery. Compared with traditional open surgery, laparoscopic lumbar sympathetic ganglionectomy has the advantages of clear field, accurate positioning, small trauma, fast recovery, short hospitalization time, etc. In addition to the treatment of erythema gangrenosum, it also has a better therapeutic effect on the ischemic diseases of the lower limbs such as thromboembolic vasculitis and diabetic foot, etc. The patient was able to walk on the floor on the second day after the surgery.