Treatment of peripheral atherosclerosis and endarteritis

Treatment of atherosclerosis in Kyiv Zaporizhzhia

• What is vascular atherosclerosis?

  The disease of humanity of the XXI century. In the most economically developed countries, obliterating atherosclerosis is one of the most common causes of disability and total mortality - up to 70% of all deaths in the world. Every second dying person in Ukraine dies from the consequences of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis begins with a dysfunction of endotheliocytes (special cells inside the arteries), which ensure the smoothness of blood flow and produce a lot of substances necessary for human functioning. Over time, so-called "plaques" form, which gradually limit the flow of blood to the organs.

• What causes atherosclerosis

  - Smoking

  - Overweight (obesity) and inactive (sedentary) lifestyle

  - Proper nutrition (abuse of fatty foods and alcohol)

  - Increased blood pressure and elevated serum cholesterol and homocysteine levels

  - Hormonal imbalance frequent stress

• Systemic disease

  The picture of the disease depends on where the atherosclerotic plaques appeared: angina pectoris and, as a result, a heart attack - if in the heart; stroke with damage to the vessels of the neck and brain; pain in the extremities and gangrene in the peripheral nature of the lesion. If the disease is not detected and controlled in time, then sooner or later thrombosis will occur in the zone of maximum narrowing, which will lead to acute circulatory disorders. This is not a problem of any one organ, but of the organism as a whole.