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Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

High White Blood Count

Answered by a doctor

I just received a call from My Doctors office letting me know that when I requested to have Blood work taken because it has been so long since the last time and my twin sister passed away 8 years ago from a Fibroid Tumor in her Uterus and she had Cancer and her Gynecologist at an earlier time had...

by User avatar Toni McCauley

How to clear clogged heart arteries?

My father has a problem with clogged heart arteries. He is taking certain medications which allow blood vessels to relax and widen. His doctor told him that maybe he will need to go to surgery, if medications don’t do any good. Anybody knows any good advice how to clear clogged heart arteries?

by User avatar isobel35106

very low triglycerides

How dangerous is having 114 MG/DL triglycerides? Total cholesterol is 250, HDL is 53 and LDL is 174. I am most concerned with the very low triglyceride level . Thank you

by User avatar HKAvner

Basilar anuerysm

Hi, my friend is 52 years old female and she was complaining on strong headaches in last several weeks. Last week she had epileptic seizure and she was transferred to the hospital after that. I was very scared for her because I thought that she has brain tumor but after all analysis her doctor told...

by User avatar sidoney43307

Does a disease caused by Legionella induce high temperature?

I have a question after watching a medical program on TV last night, if that is OK? In the program, this guy was infected with Legionella and then has a high temperature. Is this something that happens to people that are infected with Legionella and have a disease caused by this? Thank you for your...

by User avatar andre1157140903

Glucose 5.76 in a young health woman, Is this high?

Hi, I am 26 years old female and I gave my blood to be tested as I regularly do two times per year. When results were done I saw that my blood sugar is on the level 5.76 so I was little worried because of it. No one in my family have problems with sugar so I would like to know if this is normal for...

by User avatar nedi36599

How do you end up with Hbp?

I’m 35, male and have Hbp. I am not overweight and am in a good shape actually. I do not want to start with hbp medications because am familiar with their side effects and think that it is too early for me to behave like chronic sufferer. I know that all meds for hypertension causes decreased or...

by User avatar Guest

how to treat maliaria

I know that malaria is dangerous infection that most commonly occur in Africa. However, I want to know more about it, because not all I know is enough for me. I wish to understand it, so it is needed more then just mosquito affects people to get malaria. I would appreciate what you could tell me...

by User avatar Guest

Thrombocytpenia

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a commonest blood disorder that causes thrombocytopenia or low platelet count. I would like to know what drugs can cause thrombocytopenia. It happened to my good friend recently. He has been diagnosed with ITP, blood disorder, which causes thrombocytopenia or low...

by User avatar malhotra1416

aortic anurysm procedures

I would like to hear some details about abdominal aortic aneurysm. What is common procedure for this? According to the symptoms I’ve been having doctor suspects on AAA. I am felling very weak and helpless.

by User avatar knies2482