Less blood circulation to legs

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Humber Consumer

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12 March 2004, 19:14 UTC #1

My mom had a clot in head for two years. She has been on
different types of medicine including blood thinners. Lately
she had been complaining about severe pain in her legs. The
doc ordered MRI and XRays and stuff. The results are not in
yet but doc thinks it is less blood circulation to legs! My
question is what is the reason for having low blood
circulation to legs and can it be cured? Thanks
PS: My mom lives in India.

Doe

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13 March 2004, 22:04 UTC #2

Quoted message said:
Subject: Less blood circulation to legs
From: [email hidden] (Humber Consumer)
Date: 3/12/2004 9:59 AM Mountain Standard Time
Message-id: <[email hidden]>
My mom had a clot in head for two years. She has been on
different types of medicine including blood thinners.
Lately she had been complaining about severe pain in her
legs. The doc ordered MRI and XRays and stuff. The results
are not in yet but doc thinks it is less blood circulation
to legs! My question is what is the reason for having low
blood circulation to legs and can it be cured? Thanks
PS: My mom lives in India.

Int Angiol. 1992 Jul-Sep;11(3):169-75. Related
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Haemodilution in patients with peripheral arterial
occlusive disease.

Kiesewetter H, Jung F, Erdlenbruch W, Wenzel E.

Department of Clinical Haemostasiology and Transfusion
Medicine, University of the Saarland, Homburg-Saar, Germany.

Haemodilution is an efficient conservative therapy of
peripheral arterial occlusive disease. Already a single
isovolaemic haemodilution (replacement of 500 ml blood for
Haes* 0.5, 10%) increases the pain-free walking distance by
85%. These effects can be maintained by a constant therapy
over six weeks and following haemodilution once or twice per
month. The haematocrit values should be between 38 and 42%.
The haemodilution should be done hyper- or isovolaemically.
Not more than 250 ml blood and 500 ml Haes should be infused
during one session in order to avoid hypovolaemia. This
means an infusion of 250 ml Haes, venesection of 250 ml
blood via the same access and then infusion of the remaining
250 ml. The whole procedure should not last more than one
hour. Blood pressure, heart rate, lung auscultation and
percussion as well as creatinine values has to be controlled
during an intensive therapy. If the hydroxyethyl starch
concentration exceeds 150 g per week pruritus may occur in
singular cases, if the concentration exceeds 700 g per week
it is observed in 50% of the cases. Provided the preventive
measures are observed haemodilution is an efficient and good
therapy which also increases the compliance to practice
vascular exercise.

PMID: 1281205 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Doe

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13 March 2004, 22:05 UTC #3

Quoted message said:
Subject: Less blood circulation to legs
From: [email hidden] (Humber Consumer)
Date: 3/12/2004 9:59 AM Mountain Standard Time
Message-id: <[email hidden]>
My mom had a clot in head for two years. She has been on
different types of medicine including blood thinners.
Lately she had been complaining about severe pain in her
legs. The doc ordered MRI and XRays and stuff. The results
are not in yet but doc thinks it is less blood circulation
to legs! My question is what is the reason for having low
blood circulation to legs and can it be cured? Thanks
PS: My mom lives in India.

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