With this disease you can live for years, deal with everyday affairs and do not experience any symptoms. Meanwhile, aneurysm will be imperceptible to grow in the body, threatening at any time to break.
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Than not a delayed bomb? But even when the doctor puts the diagnosis, the patient is not able to fully realize the whole danger of the situation.
What is aneurysm?
Aneurysm – This is a protrusion of the artery wall (less often – veins) due to its thinning or stretching. As a result, the so-called aneurysmatic bag appears, which can samp out near the fabric. Aneurysm is most often congenital. Moreover, when a child appears to the light, this vice is impaired, and the baby develops perfectly fine. The aneurysm also causes diseases that sweep the blood vessels: hypertension, atherosclerosis, syphilis (late stage). The risk of developing this cunning disease appears during injury or injury to the blood vessel, as well as in the formation of infected thrombus.
Often, aneurysm is found randomly, with ultrasound or x-ray. When it is identified, urgent treatment is required, since the gap of the aneurysm leads to hemorrhage, which is often fraught with death. At the time of breaking the aneurysm, a person feels pain, and its blood pressure begins to fall rapidly.
Despite the obvious danger of the disease, the governments of many countries still do not pay due attention to this problem. In the United States, almost as many people die from the aneurysm annually as from AIDS (24 thousand people). At the same time, 500 thousand dollars and 1.4 billion dollars stand out on the struggle with these diseases. The sudden gap of the aneurysm broke the lives of such outstanding people as Albert Einstein, Charles de Gaulle, actor Andrei Mironov and a musician Zhenya Belousov.
It is believed that acquired aneurysm is more common in patients older than 50 years. Young people are usually developing due to injuries obtained in car accidents or in exhibiting extreme sports.
Distinguish several aneurysm varieties.
Aneurysm brain
The most dangerous and frequent form of this disease. It is characterized by a local expansion of the arteries of the brain. According to many doctors, complications after breaking aneurysm are commensurate with the effects of stroke. In the case of hemorrhage, there is a sharp pain, a person loses consciousness. In half, patients dying, many of those who survived, remain disabled. At the same time, only 25 percent of the aneurysm patients with an aneurysm to the fatal moment are tested by a headache, similar to migraine. Often this disease is mistakenly diagnosed as a brain tumor.
Aneurysm Aorti
No less dangerous disease. It can develop in different parts of this blood vessel. At the same time, the lumen of the aorta expands twice as compared with the norm. This diagnosis is 50 thousand people per year, and according to the results of research, the aortic aneurysm is found in 7 percent of the dead, who died for another reason. In the later stages of the disease, the patients complain about the crushing pain in a particular part of the body. The aneurysm of the thoracic aorta, aortic aneurysm, the aortic aneurysm, whose feature is that it can develop for 20 years after injury. There is also an aneurysm of the abdominal degree of aorta, which also proceeds asymptomatic. However, very thin patients, putting a hand to the stomach, can feel ripples and pain. If this aneurysta surrend the spinal cord roots, pain becomes unbearable.
With the aneurysm of peripheral vessels (blood vessels of the limbs), patients can feel severe pain in the legs and arms.
Heart aneurysm
It is characterized by a bag-shaped copper wall. Acquired Heart Aneurysm Receives 5–20 percent of patients who have undergone myocardial infarction. Over time, a scar, which gradually protrudes. Aneurysm can develop as immediately after a heart attack, and a few months after it.
If any form of aneurysm is found, surgery is required. The essence of the operation consists in excision of the damaged section of the vessel and the substitution of its plastic prosthesis or a fragment of a blood vessel from another part of the body.
