How serious to one's health is an arterial tear? What complications may arise? How are they repaired?
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It depends on the size of the artery that is torn. The complications would be internal bleeding. Depending on the volume and location of the internal bleeding, death by blood loss or compressing the brain could occur. In an aneurism such as a brain aneurism or abdominal aortic aneurism, the artey is not yet torn but weakend and bulged out. These are at risk for tearing but if caught soon enough can be repaired sugically. A torn middle meningeal artery can lead to bleeding into the brain which compresseses it.
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Lots of things. See a Dr.  Sooner the better\nfor your safety.
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Etiology(cause) of atherosclerosis is theorized to be damage to the blood vessel inner layer which is called endothelium.  This can happen in "normal" person (those with no obvious disease/health problems) - though hypertension can contribute to increased likelihood of damage.  On top of this the blood contains much fatty stuff (cholesterol etc) which gets deposited on the injury site.  So there's no agent that spreads from a diseased person to another, blood transfusion might be an artificial way to contract the "risk factors" but this is insignificant and wouldn't make it contagious
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See a Doctor it could be something serious.
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I think you should talk to your doctor.  If you have a condition where your blood vessels break easily you might have more to worry about than bruises on your hands.  A broken blood vessel in the brain is a type of stroke and is very serious.  It is usually preceded by a severe headache.
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Perforated artery is when an oxygen-carrying blood vessel (artery) is perforated (slightly torn along its length).\n\nThink perforated paper if you want an example.  The kind that's easy to tear in the middle, down the perforation.\n\nArterial perforation is generally a dangerous condition and a medical emergency... many patients will feel severe pain in the area of the perforation (normally the perforation occurs in a high pressure area like the aorta, going from the top to the bottom of the torso).  Again, this is a medical emergency, and if anybody suspects they have it, they must seek help immediately.
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Get to a Dr., NOW !!!!!!\nYou might have a broken blood vessel.
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You need to revise your question, it makes no sense.  You left out what was causing the internal bleeding.  Was trauma involved or a disease process?  Without further details, your question is too vague.\n\nInternal bleeding no matter what isn't a good thing, without surgery, death could occur.
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See a heart specialist ....I am serious !
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Like from a cadaver?  Because any living person might just need their own.  I have never heard of artery donor.  I am not sure why, but I think most everyone has an artery or vein that can be used for these purposes.  Including the mammary artery running down the chest wall, the greater saphaneous veins in both legs and the radial artery in both arms.  If you got a donor artery then it would be like accepting an organ from another person and you would have to have anti-rejection medication (immuno-compromised) the rest of your life.  It also makes me wonder about inflammatory problems inside the vessel.  \n\nThis is an area where I envision one day where you might be able to grow your own vessels in a petrie dish.
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First I would ask for an echocardiogram with & without saline (water bubbles); this will show any & hopefully all holes in your heart. I had it done & they found I was missing a chamber and had holes on the opposite side of my heart which required them to "cath" my heart. They make a small slice in the groin area & go through a main artery in your leg up to your heart. I'm only 5' & 100 lbs & they couldn't knock me out with morphine (I watched the entire procedure & ticked off my cardiologist -lol). My personal opinion would be 1. ask questions, make a list if you have to, 2. check out the surgeons & their history, & 3. if they are as good as they check out to be the procedure will be a cakewalk for you. I was 38 when they found all of this & now I'm 43 and alive to see my baby (23) get married this coming August to a wonderful young lady. My Dad had 2 triple arterial bypasses & he lost a leg in Korea and God bless him, he'll be 79 this July. Yes, I had a good role model but it is normal to get upset when a Dr mentions a prob w/the heart & that you have to face surgery. I now know how a lobster feels having its chest cracked but thorasic & cardiac surgery is so advanced that I can promise you that you'll be fine. Try to keep a positive attitude and have faith; they told me after 3 days that if I could walk up & down a flight of stairs 4 times, I could go home..........I bolted & got my boney butt outta that hospital & back into my own home in no time. My thoughts & prayers are with you (Navy brat here) but above all : keep the faith.\nBeth
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The cause is of paramount concern.\n\nIf new, and from acute coronary disease, then there are great treatment options.  Stenting at your grandfather's age would be a solid option, if multiple vessel disease, may require coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg, we say cabbage).\n\nIf from prolonged hypertension... viral disease... prolonged alcohol abuse... others.. then his heart muscle may be unrecoverable, and he's in bad shape.  Medications to reduce symptoms and increase function work, but ultimately limited by the amount of living/functioning tissue, and more complex things like exactly "how" that tissue is working.\n\nIf from dead tissue due to prior heart attack, more radical surgeries are possible... you'd need an absolute expert, look to a university setting if this is the case.\n\nIf no surgical options, and there is a vast amount of tissue dead or useless... his mortality is in the months (could be days, hours, is he in the ICU?, sorry to scare you).  Transplant can do amazing things if an organ is available, he's sick enough to get the organ, but well enought to survive....\n\nIf he's walking, and just has a cough, and swelling in the legs; with weight loss, excercise, lots of medications, he can nearly restore his mortality to normal (depending on co-existing conditions).
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Progressive hardening of the arteries due to long standing hypertension. In this case cardiovascular arteries are hardened, compromising blood flow to the heart muscle and tissue. complications include Angnia Pectoris, MI (Heart Attack) and Heart faliure.
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Go see your doctor, that could be dangerous and compromise your health
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owww.. this condition only happened when breathing under high pressure? well.. i guess nothing much the arterioles can do but to lower its resistance and thus increase the blood flow...
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Ahh sounds like a definate case of torn blood vessel. The brusing gave it away. Most blood vessels have little innervation, so when their torn or damaged you usually don't feel it. The swelling afterward was due to a buildup of blood under the tissue where the tear took place. Most pain from a ruptured vessel comes from the pressure the blood puts on surrounding tissue. Sometimes though the pressure is just right and no pain can be felt if there is enough room for the blood to drain to. As long as you still have sensation on your hand and good grip I think I wouldn't be worried to much, but if you are worried please see your Dr. They can further evaluate any results and see what else if anything needs to be done. Good Luck!
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Larry - I'm somewhat appalled that people are chiming in with answers to your health care questions when it is clear that they don't know what you're talking about.  A person's health is not something one should be so cavalier about.  To clarify this for others, coarctation of the aorta is a condition in which there is underdevelopment of a segment of the aorta, generally at about the level of the left subclavian artery.  This can range from a mild narrowing to complete interruption of the aortic arch.  Many surgical procedures have been used to repair coarctations including: resection of the tight segment followed by end-to-end anastamosis; resection followed by placement of a prosthetic (or artificial) graft; patch augmentation of the tight segment, augmentation of the tight segment using a portion of the left subclavian artery; and ascending-to-descending aortic bypass in which a prosthetic (artificial) graft is used to create a detour around the narrow segment.\n\nIt sounds like you underwent the last procedure which was first performed, I believe, at the Mayo Clinic.  One of the first papers on this procedure by Heidi Connolly, MD, described 18 patients who underwent the same procedure between 1985 and 2000.  In that cohort, all patients were followed for an average of 4 years at which time all the grafts had remained open.  More recently, a group from Russia reported on 52 patients who underwent the procedure since 1987.  Patients were followed for an average of about 7 years (ranging from 2 years to 11 years) at which time all grafts had remained open.\n\nThe bypass procedure that we use for patients with coarctation is VERY DIFFERENT from the more common bypass surgery that is done for coronary artery disease!  It is important that you do not get the two confused as Samantha and foni.toni have done.  Given the size of the bypass needed to accomodate the large amount of blood flow, ascending-to-descending aortic bypass is always done with a prosthetic graft.  The veins from your legs that are used for coronary bypass are much too small.  At the same time, because of the high flow of blood through an aortic bypass graft, occlusion of these grafts is VERY RARE as opposed to the 50% loss at 10 years that we see in coronary bypass grafts that are taken from the leg.  Keep in mind, though, that we have only been doing aortic bypass grafts for about 20 years and in MUCH smaller numbers than for coronary bypass surgery, so we don't have as much experience with them to be able to say if they will stay open forever.\n\nIt is very important for you to continue to follow up with a cardiologist who is specially trained in congenital heart disease!  It is appropriate to get routine imaging to make sure that the graft is still open and that no leaks or aneurysms have developed.  If you have further questions on this, please don't hesitate to contact me, but again, I urge you to maintain regular follow-up with your cardiologist!  Good luck!