Many people like to play mahjong as an entertainment pastime for the New Year's Festival. In fact, sitting for a long time and playing mahjong is not good for the body, especially for some chronic disease patients, it may also induce cardiovascular disease and cause big trouble. During the Chinese New Year, Wuhan Tongji Hospital rescued a patient who had been induced by long-term mahjong to induce aortic dissection.
Mr. Liu, 40 years old this year, usually likes to play mahjong, and the New Year holiday is even more "continuous rotation". The night before, he had been rubbing mahjong continuously all night, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly had chest pain, and his family quickly sent him to Tongji, and after a series of examinations, he was diagnosed as a major artery dissection. According to the receiving doctor, Mr. Liu himself has a long history of hypertension, coupled with long-term playing mahjong, multiple factors superimposed to induce this serious illness.
Wei Xiang, director of the Department of Cardiac and Macrovascular Surgery at Tongji Hospital, said: "Long-term playing mahjong is easy to induce aortic dissection for people with a history of hypertension. This is because people who play mahjong for a long time are more tired and easily increase their blood pressure. The second is that the winning and losing cards in the process of playing mahjong lead to large emotional fluctuations and easy to cause blood pressure to rise. Elevated blood pressure can easily lead to aortic dissection. ”
According to experts, aortic dissection is the most dangerous cardiovascular disease. As the most important blood transport channel of the human body, the tube wall of the aorta is composed of the inner membrane, the middle membrane and the outer membrane. The aortic dissection is when blood breaks through the inner membrane of the aortic, and the high-speed and high-pressure blood flow passes through the inner membrane and the middle membrane to form another new space that can accommodate blood flow, that is, the aortic dissection.
If this mezzanine cannot be repaired in time, the consequences are often unimaginable. Aortic dissection is also known as a human bomb, and if the outer membrane of the blood vessel ruptures, the person dies on the spot. If the outer membrane is not ruptured, but the intima is ruptured, it is also very dangerous, the mortality rate within three days is between 50% and 70%, and the mortality rate after three days is basically an increase of one percentage point per hour, which can be said to be the most critical cardiovascular disease.
Although aortic dissection is very dangerous, the relevant treatment techniques are now mature. In China, the treatment of aortic dissection is mainly through three methods: drug conditioning, stent intervention and artificial vascular replacement surgery. As long as patients can be sent to the hospital in time after the onset of the disease, there is a high cure rate.
Aortic dissection is divided into two types: type 1 and type 2. Type 2 aortic dissection can be treated with intervention and medication, and type 1 aortic dissection requires surgical replacement of artificial blood vessels. These several treatment procedures are not called mature, as long as the patient can be sent to the hospital in time, most of them can get good treatment.
In the past decade or so, the incidence of aortic dissection has increased year by year, from a rare disease in the cardiovascular field to a common disease now, and there is a trend of rejuvenation. Experts remind that paying attention to the control of underlying diseases and avoiding high-risk factors can effectively prevent the occurrence of this cardiovascular severe disease.
Doctors remind: "Aortic dissection is now getting younger and younger. On the one hand, the quality of people's blood vessels is getting worse and worse, because now people eat high oil and high fat, so that there are more deposits in the blood vessels, and the blood vessels are easy to rupture. Second, some young patients with high blood pressure feel that they are young and do not pay attention to it, nor do they take medication, so this problem occurs. So we remind young people to pay attention to the management of blood pressure as well. ”
(Source: Wuhan Station Intern Editor: Yin Yixing)