The São Paulo Football Club reported, on Saturday afternoon (5), that the midfielder Luiz Gustavo is hospitalized at the Albert Einstein Hospital, in São Paulo, with pulmonary thromboembolism – Also known as pulmonary embolism.
The disease happens when there is A, which migrates the body’s blood vessels until it reaches the lung and obstruct an artery of the organ, according to the pulmonologist Humberto BogossianSpecialist at Albert Einstein Hospital.
O clot clues a lung artery and prevents blood circulation in the obstruction region. In addition, it can reach various areas of the organ.
“In that affected region, the blood will not pass and there will be no oxygen change, and a lower area in the lung to occur gases: an area of the lung will not receive blood to change the gases, which is absorbing oxygen and eliminating carbon dioxide,” he explained.
The big problem of pulmonary embolism is the overload it causes in the heartaccording to the pulmonologist MARCELO JORGE JACOCoordinator of the Pulmonary Circulation Commission of the Brazilian Society of Pulmonology and Tisiology (SBPT). After all, the right ventricle, responsible for pumping blood to the lung, needs to do this for obstructed arteries.
“(Without clots) The resistance of the pulmonary artery was small, but the artery is obstructed in the embolism, creating a greater resistance in the sudden form of the disease. (Ie) there is no time for the heart to adapt to the disease,” explains Jorge Jacob.
The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, or thromboembolism, is made after a chest angiotomography – An image exam that allows you to view the body’s blood vessels.
What are the symptoms and causes of pulmonary thromboembolism?
The disease may be asymptomatic, according to the specialists heard by the report, or present symptoms such as a sudden short air followed by pain when breathing, or even cough with secretion and blood. Most serious patients may have fever or even fainting.
Inpatients, bedridden or immobilized for long periods may develop pulmonary embolism. Therefore, they take medications to prevent the disease. Other risk groups involve, elderly and even pregnant people – shortly before or soon after delivery.
Pulmonary thromboembolism may also not have a definite cause. “This population has a higher incidence of having again. In these cases, these people may have to have treatment for the rest of their lives,” says Marcelo Jorge Jacó.
Pulmonary embolism treatments
The main treatment, according to the pulmonologist André Nathando Syrian-Lebanese Hospitalit happens through anticoagulant medicines. “These are medicines that prevent the formation of new clots, thus avoiding the place where the clot forms, and new embolitions,” he explains to CNN.
In more severe cases, thrombolytics are used – medicines that dissolve the clot. “They are efficient, but greatly increase the risk of bleeding (bleeding). Therefore, they are used only in specific and more serious cases,” concludes the doctor.
