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What is a vascular injury?
The hand is one of the most important and frequently used organs in our daily lives. Therefore, hand injuries, especially vascular injuries, can seriously affect a person’s quality of life. Since our hands are the organ we use the most in daily life, they are sometimes one of the areas most exposed to shock due to habit, absent-mindedness, rapid movement or trauma.
What are the causes of vascular injuries?
Vascular injuries to the hand can have many causes. The most common of these are:
- Cutting tool injuries: Wounds caused by cutting tools such as knives, scissors or glass can result in severing of blood vessels.
- Crushing injuries: Situations such as getting stuck in a door or falling on a heavy object can damage the veins in the hand.
- Penetrating injuries: Penetration of sharp objects such as nails, needles or bullets into the hand can result in vein punctures.
- Surgical procedures: The risk of vascular damage is higher during hand surgery, especially microvascular surgery.
What are the symptoms of vascular injuries?
The symptoms of vascular injuries in the hand vary depending on the severity of the injury and the type of damaged vessel. It usually shows these symptoms:
- Severe pain
- Bleeding
- Increase in temperature
- Inflatable
- Numbness or tingling
- Restricted movement
Types of Vascular Injuries
Vascular injuries to the hand vary depending on the severity and location of the injury. General:
- Deep vascular injuries: Cutting or tearing of large vessels in the hand.
- Superficial vascular injuries: Damage to vessels that are smaller in diameter than deep vessels.
- Multiple vascular injuries: This is a condition in which more than one vessel is damaged at the same time.
How are vascular injuries treated?
The MSM Clinic offers hand surgery services with its expert staff and state-of-the-art equipment. When treating vascular injuries to the hand, individual treatment plans are created that are tailored to the patient’s specific condition. Thanks to advanced techniques such as microvascular surgery, our patients can return to their daily lives as quickly as possible.
- Applying pressure: In the case of minor injuries, bleeding can be stopped by applying direct pressure to the injured area.
- Suturing: In the case of major injuries, the ends of the vessels are repaired by suturing them together.
- Microvascular surgery: This is a special surgical technique for repairing very small vessels.
- Tissue transfer: In the case of major tissue loss, the injured area is repaired with tissue from another part of the body.
What is microvascular surgery?
Microvascular surgery is a special technique for surgically repairing vessels and nerves with a very small diameter. This technique is particularly important in the treatment of vascular injuries to the hand. Thanks to these procedures, which are performed by experienced microvascular surgeons at the MSM Clinic, our patients’ hand functions are largely preserved.
