Comparison Between Chronic Venous Insufficiency and Deep Venous Thrombosis

Disorders of the Veins and Arteries
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Comparison of chronic venous insufficiency and deep venous thrombosis
Presently, veins and arteries disorders are great chronic diseases with up to 40% of the world population being affected. Veins transport deoxygenated blood from the body tissues to the heart while most arteries carry blood full of oxygen from the heart to body organs. Mostly, many problems affect these blood vessel and cause chronic problems among them venous insufficiency and deep venous thrombosis (Stacey, 2011). Chronic venous insufficiency is a protracted complaint that arises in the legs veins due to malfunction of either the venous wall or the valves preventing the return deoxygenated blood to the heart (Stacey, 2011).
Obstruction of either the valves or venous wall causes blood to leak from the normal path flow and reflux backward to the veins in the full legs. The disorder is not a severe health threat, but it is painful and disabling (Cornelissen et al., 2010). If not treated, the disease cause varicose veins, cramps, changes in skin, leg ulcers and swelling. The pathophysiology associated with the illness is the complex and multifactorial involving the genetic predisposition, hormones, endothelial dysfunction, environmental factors and imbalance of the cytokines and metalloproteinase (Stacey, 2011). The risks factors associated with the disease are obesity, advanced age, and positive family history. Moreover, women are prone to the disease than men and especially pregnant women. The disease causes severe effects on the patient’s quality of life as well as the social, economic impacts due to the treatment cost (Van et al., 2010).
On the other hand, between 1-2% of hospitalized patients, today suffer from deep venous thrombosis. Deep vein thrombosis is a condition caused by blood clotting in large veins in the legs or the pelvis area. Primarily, it causes pulmonary embolism, when the blood clot or the embolus moves from the legs and attaches in a lung artery (McCrae, 2011). It results in conditions associated with the impaired venous return, endothelial injury due to hypercoagulability. While some deep vein thrombosis cause pain, others are less painful. Mostly the disease may occur to ambulatory patients as a result of the difficulty in medical operations or significant medical problems. The patient is suffering from the disease experience edema, tenderness along the distribution of veins and aching pain although the severity and frequency from a patient to another (Cornelissen et al., 2010).
Difference between venous thrombosis and arterial thrombosis
Venous and arterial thrombosis is considered unalike in pathophysiological elements due to their anatomical differences and distinct clinical presentations (Cornelissen et al., 2010). However, the two vascular illness shows similarities in the risk factors such as age, smoking, high cholesterol, obesity, metabolic syndrome, blood hypertension, and diabetes. Furthermore, infections, antibody syndrome, fatalities have been illustrations of conditions fueled by venous and arterial thrombosis all together. Research has shown that patient suffering venous thromboembolism are likely to succumb to arterial thrombosis than...