Chao News Client Reporter Sun Yan Correspondent Zhang Chi Yang Guoliang Wang Cui.
If you "block" the blood vessels that nourish the tumor, can you "starve it to death"? This is not a fanciful idea! Vascular embolization is a minimally invasive method that can use "a small catheter" to ** tumors. Uncle Li (pseudonym), who is in his 70s, used it.
Uncle Li has been suffering from inexplicable pain in his right ribs for the past six months, but he couldn't resist his wife's insistence and went to Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese and Western Medicine (Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital) for an examination, and it was found that there was an 8 cm tumor on the liver. After further examination, Uncle Li was diagnosed with primary liver cancer!
Uncle Li's tumor has developed to the left and right lobes of the liver, and he cannot be operated on directly**, this news is simply a bolt from the blue. Chief Physician Yang Guoliang, who received Uncle Li, carefully reviewed the relevant examination results, comprehensively evaluated and analyzed them carefully, and told Uncle Li that his situation was very suitable for "vascular embolization". That is, a very thin catheter is used to inject ** drug into the tumor blood vessels, and at the same time, the diseased tumor blood vessels can be blocked, accelerating the "death" of the tumor.
Courtesy of the hospital. Director Yang, I believe in you! Uncle Li listened to Director Yang's suggestion, actively cooperated, and performed vascular embolization three times. At the same time, in the first process, Director Yang's team adopted a combination of Chinese and Western methods, assisted by traditional Chinese medicine.
In the latest follow-up, Uncle Lee's liver tumor has shrunk significantly compared to the time when it was found, and his physical discomfort has been greatly reduced.
Vascular embolization is to "block" the blood vessel so that it is not passable, and the principle of myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction is "similar", relying on a tiny catheter to find the diseased blood vessels under the contrast medium, and the blocked diseased blood vessels need to be "opened" in myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, and the diseased blood vessels of the tumor are "blocked" in the case of tumors and cut off their supply.
The vascular embolization method used in liver tumors is medically called hepatic arterial perfusion chemoembolization, which has the advantages of definite efficacy, relatively small trauma, and can be carried out in stages, and is widely used in liver tumors such as primary liver cancer.
The Department of Oncology and Hematology of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine (Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital) adopts a variety of methods such as the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine to improve the long-term survival and quality of life of liver cancer patients while carrying out minimally invasive methods of malignant tumors such as vascular embolization.
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