The life of a 24-year-old girl in Novosibirsk, who had multiple blood clots in her lungs due to a rare disease, was saved. This was reported by irk.aif.ru.
The patient consulted doctors because of the problem of miscarriage. After another miscarriage, she was prescribed blood thinners but took them irregularly. After contracting coronavirus in 2021, he began to experience severe pain in his legs, shortness of breath, and suffered severe pneumonia twice.
Doctors first thought the changes they saw in the lungs on x-ray were oncology, and then tuberculosis. The patient’s condition worsened: pain on inspiration, coughing up blood, and attacks of suffocation appeared. However, in 2023, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension was suspected. With this disease, respiratory failure develops and blood clots form in the pulmonary arteries. The five-year survival rate without surgery is less than 40%.
Doctors of the National Medical Research Center named after Academician EN managed to surgically remove the blood clots. Meshaalkin in Novosibirsk. Surgery has been performed on patients with thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in this center for more than 20 years. Doctors perform about 40 such procedures per year.
In one young patient, blood clots filled almost all of the vessels, causing the heart to become overloaded. The operation took eight hours. She was given medications to prevent blood clots and in a few years she will be able to realize her dream of motherhood.
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