Treatment of atherosclerosis involves a combination of several methods. First, it is drug therapy: prescription of drugs increasing the patency of blood vessels and reducing the frequency of vascular deposits. In addition, you must pay great attention to the lifestyle: eat right, exercise, give up bad habits, to regularly monitor blood pressure. In severe cases surgery is recommended. Patients with atherosclerosis also shows the stay in the sanatorium-resort institutions.
Treatment in sanatoria allows you to keep a package of measures aimed at the elimination of symptoms, prevent the further progression of the disease and improving overall health. First and foremost, for patients with atherosclerosis is assigned to a special diet aimed at lowering cholesterol in the blood. In addition, appointed a special physiotherapeutic procedures and mandatory sports. All this allows to effectively fight the disease.
Contraindications
- Coronary artery disease: angina 111-1V of functional classes of unstable angina.
- Circulatory insufficiency above 1st degree.
- Myocarditis in the active stage.
- Rhythm disorders of the heart: atrioventricular block 11-111 degree, often more than 5 beats per minute, paroxysmal a-FIB atrial fibrillation, supraventricular paroxysmal tachycardia, ventricular paroxysmal tachycardia.
- Obliterating trombangiit with tendency to generalization, fresh ulcerations and gangrene.
- Thromboembolic disease.
- Hypertension of the third degree.
Treatment Results
After completing the course in the resort of Krasnaya Pakhra in the blood of the patient, a decrease in cholesterol. A strict diet improves the absorption of fat in the body and prevent the development of complications.
The consequences of not treating
The most common complication is atherosclerosis aortic aneurysm. Sometimes, astrauskasa blood stretches the vessel so that required emergency surgical intervention. In such cases, you can save only artificial vessel (prosthesis).
Atherosclerosis of vessels of lower extremities is a blockage and reduction of the lumen in the vessels of the legs, resulting in disturbed nutrition of tissues, which may lead to their extinction. Risk factors include diabetes, obesity, alcohol abuse and Smoking, sedentary lifestyle, trauma, depression, high blood pressure. Improper diet is also one of the reasons for the increase of cholesterol in the blood and , as a consequence, the development of atherosclerosis.
