Warning the dangers of self -use habits
A common fact in Vietnamese is the habit of arbitrarily taking painkillers without going to the doctor.The arbitrary use of painkillers when the cause is unknown will have a lot of health risks, which can even lead to loss of life.
The case of a 38 -year -old female patient (Son Hung commune, Thanh Son district, Phu Tho province) is a typical example.The patient showed signs of headache but did not go to the doctor, then had to be hospitalized and was diagnosed with a stroke.
According to the patient's family, 4 days before the hospital, the patient appears a headache and takes his own medicine at home but does not help.However, the patient did not go to the doctor.When the patient's consciousness was slower, the family members took the patient to the General Hospital of Phu Tho Province.The patient was admitted to the hospital in a state of self -breathing, weak limbs.The patient was appointed by the doctors to the MRI scan, the result of the image of the cerebral infarction at the hill position on both sides.
BSCC photo.
The hilly infarction of the two sides is quite unusual damage.Doctors have consulted and questioned a rare disease, "cerebral thrombosis".
The patient continues to be appointed to a brain MRI scan with a sinus sinus with D-Dimer blood clots.The result is a case of "brain venous thrombosis".
The patient was treated according to the cerebral vein regimen, taking anticoagulants.The patient progresses well after treatment: from coma but currently fully awake, improved limbs, can travel by themselves.
Brain venous thrombosis - 1 form of rare stroke
According to BSCKI Nguyen Anh Minh, an effective emergency & treatment unit, a stroke center, Phu Tho General Hospital, brain thrombosis is a stroke, in which thrombosis occurs on the vein sideof the cerebral circulation leads to obstruction of one or more brain veins and epidural sinus sinuses.
Brain venous thrombosis has an annual incidence ranging from 1.16 to 2.02 of 100,000 people.The incidence of female/male diseases is 3: 1, the average age of 37, the incidence of over 65 years old is only about 8%.The disease is related to factors such as birth control pills, pregnancy, postpartum, infection, ...;congenital blood clotting diseases, malignant diseases, bone marrow, phospholipid syndrome, ...
The patient's blood clotting test results (photo BSCC).
Brain veins are responsible for drainage from the brain's components of the heart.When there is a venous thrombosis or epidural sinus, it will hinder blood drainage from the brain tissue, leading to:
- Brain parenchyma lesions (such as stroke);
- Increasing intravenous and capillary pressure leads to breaking brain barriers, causing brain edema, increased intracranial pressure and venous bleeding (infarction and bleeding combined).
Doctor Anh Minh said that the venous thrombosis of the disease is quite diverse, the symptoms that may be encountered are headaches, convulsions, increased intracranial pressure (blurred vision, thorns), paralysis.
Brain venous thrombosis is a dangerous and less common disease, difficult diagnosis.Therefore, the diagnosis of early brain venous thrombosis when the patient is hospitalized has a great significance for emergency and treatment of brain venous thrombosis, helping to increase the ability to restore the patient.