How to treat arm vein thrombus

summary

Venous thrombosis of upper extremity includes venous thrombosis of upper extremity and venous thrombosis of neck, head, trunk and superior vena cava. Upper extremity venous thrombosis can be primary or secondary. When this disease occurs, the patient's upper limb will have a very swollen performance, and will be accompanied by more serious pain, upper limb skin will be blue or from, most patients with upper limb venous thrombosis will have varicose veins. The disease was first discovered in 1949, and the cause is still unclear. Let's take a look at the following.

How to treat arm vein thrombus

First, not all upper extremity venous thrombosis need treatment. For example, in the acute period of venous thrombosis, but there are no obvious symptoms of the phenomenon is not allowed to treat, because this situation occurs in a short time after the thrombosis can disappear. But those with symptoms need active treatment.

Second, the treatment of upper extremity venous thrombosis includes the treatment of acute thrombosis, vascular compression and thrombotic sequelae. Patients with obvious symptoms need anticoagulant therapy and thrombolytic therapy. If the effect of thrombolytic therapy is not obvious and the symptoms have not been improved, surgery is needed.

Third: the surgical treatment of upper extremity venous thrombosis can be compression segment rib resection, or compression vein segment release. Some patients may also have venous stenosis or venous occlusion, for such a person, it may not be easy to control bleeding during operation, and intravenously balloon angioplasty can be used to prevent bleeding.

matters needing attention

Some patients with upper extremity venous thrombosis may have completely occluded veins, or venous stenosis has been very serious, for such patients, all kinds of venoplasty are not applicable, at this time can do internal jugular vein transposition.