• 1. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250014, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Peripheral Vascular Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250014, P. R. China;
JI Bo, Email: jiand911@sina.com
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The way of intravenous drug abuse is to puncture the peripheral blood vessels and inject the drug directly into the blood. Therefore, this method has an impact on the peripheral artery and venous system of the users, and can cause a variety of peripheral vascular diseases, such as phlebitis, deep vein thrombosis, chronic venous insufficiency, phlebangioma, atherosclerosis, acute arterial ischemia, pseudoaneurysm, etc. However, due to the particularity of drug abusers, the vascular complications caused by intravenous drug abuse have not attracted enough attention. This paper reviewed the types and pathogenesis of peripheral vascular diseases caused by intravenous drug abuse, so as to improve the clinical understanding of peripheral vascular diseases caused by intravenous drug abuse, improve the prognosis of patients, reduce occupational exposure of medical staff, and play a certain role in social warning.

Citation: ZENG Xiangyu, JI Bo. Effects of intravenous drug abuse on peripheral vascular disease. West China Medical Journal, 2021, 36(8): 1148-1152. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201910018 Copy

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