From this article you will learn: what are flebolites, why they appear and need treatment.
Contents of the article:
- The causes of
- flebolites Symptoms
- Forecast
Flebolit is a derivative of the words "phlebos"( vein) and "lithiasis" - stone formation. The result is a "venous stone".This is the most accurate definition of phlebolithiasis. Phlebolites are called venous thrombi, due to various causes formed on the inner walls of the veins and for their long existence impregnated with calcium salts. Such a result is often perceived by fixed venous thrombi, as the body, surrounding the foreign body with a dense capsule of calcium salts, tries to isolate it from the blood flow. This process is called phlebolithiasis.
The formation of phlebolitics can occur in any sufficiently large venous plexus, but most often they are found in the veins of the small pelvis. In this article, we will talk about education data as a whole, using the example of small pelvis vein felbolites. Similar formations can also be found in the venous trunks of the lower extremities and internal organs.
The size of phlebolites is usually small( within 1-5 mm), most often they are rounded, dense, like a stone, attached to the wall of the vein. It is rare to find similar formations larger than 10 mm.
Flebolitosis of the pelvic veins of the small pelvis is most often a "female" condition, in men these formations are less common in the small pelvis.
Often the detection of phlebolitis is a completely unexpected finding in radiographic or tomographic studies, less often they can be detected with ultrasound. Usually, such formations are an accidental discovery and do not disturb the patient in any way. It is wrong to call phlebolithiasis a disease at the root, since this phenomenon is completely safe.
Phlebolites themselves do not need treatment, because they do not bother patients. Although such "pebbles" are a foreign body in the vessel, but usually the lumen of the vein is preserved, and the blood flows normally in such vessels.
The causes of phlebolitis in the small pelvis
Since the phlebolites are the old thrombi that the body imbued with calcium salts, then, speaking of the reasons, it will be right to indicate the reasons for the formation of thrombi in the veins, since this process is the primary cause of phlebolitiasis.
Causes of thrombosis in the pelvic veins:
Individual features of the patient's blood coagulation system
Some people have specific diseases or genetic characteristics that cause increased blood clotting and a tendency to form blood clots. These diseases include APS, or antiphospholipid syndrome, and numerous hereditary thrombophilia - mutations of genes responsible for this or that link in the cascade of blood clotting. Without specific treatment of such diseases a person can die from massive thrombosis of vital vessels.
ASF and its causes. Click on the image to enlarge Inflammatory pelvic organs diseases
Especially often this diagnosis can be found in women of reproductive age. Inflammatory diseases of the pelvis include all inflammatory processes in the ovaries, appendages of the uterus, the uterus itself and the pelvic peritoneum - salpingitis, salpingo-oophoritis, endometritis, metroendometritis and so on. Inflammation in the pelvic organs triggers the destruction of the vascular wall and provokes the triggering of the clotting system of the body - thrombus formation begins.
Sedentary lifestyle
A sedentary and sedentary lifestyle prevents the flow of venous blood from the lower limbs and pelvic organs. Stagnant phenomena contribute to the thickening of stagnant blood and the formation of blood clots.
A sedentary lifestyle is often determined by the nature of the work. Stagnant phenomena in the pelvic area are often observed in programmers, accountants, secretaries, drivers, cashiers.
Varicose veins of the lower extremities and pelvis
Varicose disease is a complex disease with a mass of causes and provoking factors. One of the main such factors are heredity, sedentary lifestyle, weight lifting and congenital anomalies of the venous wall. Exacerbate the course of the disease overweight, pregnancy, smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
Everyone is used to think about varicose veins of the legs, but varicose veins of the pelvis are actually quite frequent, especially in young women with inflammatory diseases of the female genital area, infertility and chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Abnormally convoluted and dilated veins change the flow of blood and provoke venous congestion and thrombus formation.
Thrombi can either form primarily in the varicose veins of the pelvis, or migrate from similar veins of the legs.
Click on the picture to enlarge Pregnancy
Pregnancy is not only a joyful waiting period, but also a starting point for many conditions. Pregnancy provokes and aggravates the course of varicose veins, directly initiates blood stasis in the small pelvis. A peculiarity of the blood coagulation system of the future mother is a tendency to hypercoagulable - that is, increased clotting of blood. Venous congestion and hypercoagulation will inevitably lead to the formation of blood clots in the veins of the small pelvis.
Taking oral contraceptives
Hormonal contraception or combined oral contraception( COC) is one of the most beautiful and at the same time horrible inventions of modern pharmacology. Perfectly coping with its main purpose, taking COC in some women leads to severe complications. Family history, smoking and the features of the blood coagulation system in such patients play a cruel joke with them.
Estrogen as part of the COC provokes the initiation of the cascade of abnormal blood clotting and leads to the formation of thrombi in both the small pelvis and other vital organs: the lungs, the brain, and the liver.
This does not mean that you need to completely abandon hormonal contraception. It's just that doctors and patients need to be more serious about the appointment of such drugs.
Estrogen formula Lack of sexual life and anorgasmia
Regular sexual life contributes not only to procreation, but also is an excellent prevention of many diseases, in particular, and the notorious venous stasis.
A lack of orgasm in women and men provokes venous congestion and spasm of small pelvic vessels, which leads to thrombosis.
Symptoms of
Flebolites in the small pelvis by themselves do not bother patients in any way and can exist in their bodies for years, only showing up on an x-ray or ultrasound examination.
Symptoms of varicose veins and venous congestion in the pelvic veins are quite obvious:
- Syndrome of chronic pelvic pain. Patients are concerned about dull, aching pains in the lower abdomen and lower back with unclear localization. In the overwhelming majority of cases, this syndrome worries women.
- Prolonged and profuse menstruation can also be combined with venous congestion and varicose pelvic disease.
- Infertility is often combined with varicose pelvic disease, but it is not always its consequence.
- Swelling of the genital organs.
- Varicose disease of the legs and external genital organs with a high probability allows to assume the presence of venous congestion in the veins of the small pelvis - the starting moment to the formation of thrombi and phlebolitis in the future.
Forecast
Flebolites are original traces of the past. Many months ago, there was a thrombosis in the body, the body delimited the clots from calcium by covering the lumen of the vein. Such formations are absolutely not dangerous and do not need special treatment, therefore the prognosis for phlebolothyroidism is favorable.
