Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlker Kiriş
Cardiovascular Surgery
Vascular Occlusion Treatment
Arterial occlusion occurs due to stenosis or occlusion in arteries carrying oxygen-rich clean blood in the leg or arm regions. Generally, the fat, cholesterol, and calcification accumulating on the inner vessel walls with time cause stiffness and narrowing in the vessel.
If the treatment is postponed, it can lead to severe problems that can lead to gangrene in the foot. Therefore, it is critical not to neglect the treatment and choose a reliable doctor. Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlker Kiriş is among the doctors you can consult because of his experiences in this field.
Why is Early Diagnosis Important?
If the artery occlusion treatment is applied while the disease is still in progress, major problems that may develop in the future can be avoided. For this reason, early diagnosis is critical in eliminating the complications that may be caused by the disease. While precautions can be taken more easily in these periods, surgery becomes inevitable in the later stages. If you are facing faced one of the symptoms below, you can consult Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlker Kiriş and allow him to conduct your diagnosis and treatment procedures.
Points to be Considered by the Patient in Treatment
In the first stage of treatment, measures are taken for risk factors causing the disease.
These rules can be summarized as follows;
- If the patient has high blood pressure, he/she must pay attention to keep his/her blood pressure at ideal values as much as possible, and if he smokes, he should quit immediately. Besides, maintaining blood sugar at optimum levels and balancing cholesterol levels are among the measures to be taken.
- Protection of body health is vital in the treatment of artery occlusion. The person must get rid of excess weight and keep eating habits at the best possible levels.
- Apart from these, treating the disease might require prescribing vasodilating and anticoagulant medications. Other medications may be necessary depending on the underlying cause. All of these are useable by the disease degree.
- As part of a healthy nutrition schedule prescribed by the doctor, designating the inconsumable foods and beverages and complying with them are other feasible measures.
Arterial Occlusion Treatment in Izmir, Turkey
The artery occlusion disease, which occurs with increasing severe pain in the legs over time, has features that prevent a person from moving. Leg pain emerges when walking a certain distance and becomes especially severe when climbing stairs. Even in some advanced stages of the disease, although the patient remains immobile, the pain continues. The patient's referral to a cardiovascular surgeon when his/her complaints begin makes a diagnosis possible in the early stages of the disease. The patient is diagnosed through a medical history, examination, arterial ultrasonography, and angiography, and thus appropriate treatment begins.
Non-surgical and surgical methods are useable in the treatment. Your doctor finds out the suitable method for the patient by on the degree of the disease. Non-surgical methods also consist of stent angioplasty (stent placement), atherectomy (calcification removal), and balloon angioplasty (vasodilating through medicated or non-medicated balloons). When deciding on the treatment to be applied, the patient's vascular structure, general health status, accompanying diseases, the length of the artery stenosis, and the degree of calcification are considered. If the patient's artery occlusion is not suitable for the application of intravenous (endovascular) methods, vascular surgery operations may be considered. These surgical methods are likely to consist of bypass surgery and endarterectomy (the cleaning method to remove vessel calcification through open surgery).
Apart from surgical and non-surgical methods, the patient should be conscious of the disease, take a determined stance to fight the disease, and change some habits in his/her life. This group of patients should not smoke, and if they do, they must quit because, if smoking continues, if the small stenosis progresses to an advanced degree. If the patient smokes after the stenting procedure, the stent can be occluded in a short time. If a patient who has had an arterial bypass operation smokes, the artificial vein (graft) used during the surgery, which carries clean blood beyond the occlusion, can also be blocked in a short time. In short, if the patient continues to smoke, it may result in amputation of the patient's leg by Orthopedics.
In conclusion, leg artery occlusion is a disease that can yield magnificent results with early diagnosis and appropriate treatment. If you also suffer from leg artery occlusion disease, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlker Kiriş can examine you and give you an opinion.
