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Treatment of diseases of blood vessels of the upper extremities
Treatment depends on the cause of disease, location and extent of blockage. When high blood pressure prescribers, reduce it. Buerger's disease at the most important thing is giving up smoking. In addition, using this method of treatment, as sympathetic blockade. It lies in the fact that in place ganglia related to the nerve plexus of the upper extremity, injected anesthetic agent. This is done with the purpose to the blockade of nerve impulses from the hand to the brain. If this procedure helps to alleviate patient pain. The doctor may recommend a method such as sympathectomy - an operation which consists in the removal of the sympathetic host. The result of this procedure is the removal of spasm of the arteries.
With the defeat of the great vessels of the upper limb, your doctor may recommend angioplasty. The method of angioplasty is that through a small incision into an artery catheter with inflated balloon on the end. The procedure is done by constant supervision by means of X-ray monitor. The catheter tip is brought to the site of narrowing and inflated balloon. In this isthmus expands.
This procedure often is combined with the method of stenting when using the spray is set bunting stents - wire device cylindrical in shape, playing the role of the framework.
In more severe lesions of the arteries can be performed endarterectomy or bypass surgery.
Endarterectomy - a dissection of the arterial lumen and the atheromatous plaque removal, together with the inner wall of the artery. This technique applies only to local aortic or iliac arteries. There is an open, half open and closed methods of the operation. grafting method, which consists in the fact that in bypassing the narrowed section of the affected artery sutured vessel - called a shunt.
Prevention of vascular disease include smoking cessation, the normalization of excess weight, diet and compliance bezholesterinovoy of exercise.
