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).

Different pressure in legs and hands, is it because of atypical coarctation of aorta?

I was at the doctor's a few days ago and to my great surprise, it turned out that I have a different pressure in my legs and in my hands. I didn't even know that this was possible, but my doctor suggested it could be caused by atypical coarctation of aorta, which I am going to have tests for now....

by nickolai1495171199 over a year ago

suffering from Thrombocytopenia.

Respected sir , My friend, she was suffering from Thrombocytopenia. Her platelet count is decrease regularly present count is 20000 and she was not married and her age is 24. but 6 months back she had stop the allopathy medicines. and start using regularly homeopathy medicines. some days it...

by sravankumar705@gmail.com over a year ago

Low levels of Potassium

I am Sarojini age of 46 years female, now I am suffering low level of pottasim, pottasium level is 2 mm. is it recovered for treatment and plese give the show me any experts & Hospitals is there in Andhra Pradesh(India). How to recover the pottasium levels. Please give the any suggestions.

by Guest over a year ago

low absolute monocytes

my absolute monocyte level is 177 what does that mean?

by jkheier over a year ago

bACTERIA IN THE BLOOD

My Dr. said i had bacteria in my blood and he named it gram positive coccienterococcus faeralis. I get the shakes, sweating,high fever of 104 and i can't remember anthing that went on during that time. I lose control of my body functions. Can you tell me what is is I have?

by JB3239@AOL.COM over a year ago

I had replaced arteries 2 years ago

I had an operation 2 years ago March 15,2009, i really did not get much information from the Vasculer surgeon on the operation, but he said the arteries were REPLACED, I had the one in the middle and one on the spit of the artery to each leg, i do wish I had more of the in for on what was done and...

by Guest over a year ago

blood poisoning

If a red line starts developing up from a knife polk and you don.t notice for a couple of days and then go directly to a hospital where they give you an IV and every day after that for five days, does it likely mean you will be ok? The red line dissapeared after the first injection. No other...

by Guest over a year ago

my blood is weird...HELP!

For the past 2 months i have had 3 cbc's. My first two was abnormal. They said that i was anemic and i had a low white blood cells, and something about small cells. My third test came back today and they said it was normal. It all started with a swollen lymph node in my neck. Yesterday i noticed...

by pmachovina9184 over a year ago

Refusing to have stent removed while awake

Had a 5.2 stone broken up last Friday via surgery. A stent was put in with instructions to remove it myself in one week. So tonight after a lot of Pantera and Metallica, I gave it a go, and there is no way I'll be doing this myself. There is no way I'll let anyone be doing this with me conscious....

by No Way over a year ago

3 Lumps in or on my veins on inside of both forearms;

These lumps came up approx 3 hours apart 3 days ago. There was no aparant reason for these lumps, ie, bumping. The first one was the largest and the 3rd the smallest. Last night the second bruise spread quite rapidly and got bluer. they are painful to touch. Doctors at emergency had never seen them...

by SHELLEY over a year ago