Vascular diseases

Vascular diseases are diseases that negatively affect and interfere with circulation in the different blood vessels. Some of these diverse diseases are mild, but others can lead to serious complications and even death. Damage to arterial blood vessels can lower blood supply to the different bodily systems: damage to blood vessels in the brain will cause strokes and reduced mental function; damage to renal blood vessels will cause renal insufficiency; in the coronary arteries it will lead to ischemic heart disease and a heart attack; and when arteries are narrowed in the legs this may lead to peripheral vascular disease involving difficulty walking, muscular atrophy, sores and necrotic processes in the legs.

Arterial vascular diseases can be caused by many diverse factors. The most common are smoking, diabetes, hypertension, fats in the blood and lack of exercise – factors that can be influenced. However, there is also a genetic component that cannot be changed. These conditions damage and narrow the blood vessels and can even cause blockage by sclerotic plaque that contains fats, white blood vessels and sometimes calcium. This vascular damage is called atherosclerosis.

Arterial vascular diseases can be treated with medications that lower blood pressure, medications that affect the person’s tendency towards thrombophilia such as aspirin, and treatments for reducing lipid levels. In the event of severe narrowing, it can be treated by invasive interventions such as catheterizations where a catheter (thin tube) is introduced into the artery to expand the blood vessel in the narrowed area, or bypass surgery and operations that open the artery and remove the sclerotic plaque causing the blockage (endarterectomy).

Damage to cerebral arteries (stroke and dementia): extended reduction of arterial blood flow to the brain causes chronic degeneration and acute infarctions. Atherosclerosis that occurs with age in the blood vessels leading to the brain causes small infarctions that can be clinically reflected as dementia – reduced cerebral function with lowered cognitive and mental abilities. When a blood vessel is suddenly blocked resulting in lowered blood supply to a certain area of the brain, an ischemic stroke can occur (also called cerebrovascular accident – CVA). This condition leads to neurological damage that can be reflected in many ways, depending on the area damaged, such as slurred speech, weakness or paralysis in part of the body and difficulty walking.

Treatment by the Oxypro method that uses ozone gas can assist in both of these conditions – whether the patient has had an acute infarction or the disease is chronic and extensive. Increasing the flexibility of red blood cells and improving circulation in blood vessels near the affected areas can reduce the damage. The earlier the treatment of a stroke begins, the higher its effectiveness. This is because it is possible to reduce the extent of the damage and the formation of irreversible necrosis in the brain tissue.

Cases of prolonged and chronic damage due to repeated strokes are sometimes diagnosed as Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia or Parkinsonism. These conditions reflect a diffuse lowering of cerebral function due to reduced blood supply. With our treatment we are able to sometimes improve them dramatically.

Damage to leg arteries (peripheral vascular disease): in the event of significant damage to peripheral arteries, this can be identified by muscular atrophy and skin degeneration. The clinical expression can be pain in walking, a phenomenon called intermittent limping (claudication) – serious pain experienced when walking that forces the person to stop in order to alleviate the pain. The shorter the distance until the person must stop, the more serious the condition. The condition is particularly serious when pain shows up during rest. In this case it is accompanied by a tendency to develop sores that are difficult to heal and extreme necrotic processes that may lead to amputation.

Treatment with the Oxypro method using ozone gas can assist in any stage of the disease. The improvement achieved in red blood cell flexibility makes it possible to flow more oxygen to the tissue and thus to increase walking distances, improve pain at rest, and in extreme cases of slow healing sores and necrotic processes, achieve healing of the sores.