82 years old lady is having swelling of foot with bluish discoloration is it due to blockage of blood vessel
hello her foot appears to be in good condition now the likely cause for bluish discoloration is blockages only and is called peripheral arterial disease so of she should be treated on the line of blockages itself now blockages in the foot raise the strong possibility of blockages elsewhere in the body like heart brain and its fortunate that she did not suffer any consequences due to that so she should be evaluated with few investigations like egg echocardiogram echo fasting lipid profile sugar if not done recently also to confirm the diagnosis she should undergo it computed tomography angiography of both the lower limbs now coming to the treatment part obviously the best would be to open it with stents but as of now she will need some more medications than what she is having you may continue with neuroin or better to have it in a tablet form once daily and it is just a multivitamin supplement she should also continue plain ecospirin and dose should be 75 my only at bedtime now in my opinion she should additionally have tablet rosuvastatin 10 my bedtime once daily and tablet cilostazol 50 my twice daily after food she should also have some antacids along with these medications like tablet cyeara 20 my rabeprazole once daily before breakfast so these three medications should be added additionally until her evaluation is completed and probably will need to continue for the long term zerodol so should be avoided as it may harm her by causing bleeding or raising blood pressure plain paracetamol is allowed she should be encouraged to move and walk atleast 30 minutes a day as it would improve blood flow I hope this helps
hello doctor patient is an 82 year old female she weighs only about 45 keg no be no diabetes she is having inflammation and swelling in the right foot it seems to be a blockage somewhere in the right foot blood vessel and it appears bluish one month back and now it subsided a bit but the swelling is there she is on neuroin injection ecospirin and zerodol sp she is moving comfortably now but the swelling is there and the bluish color has reduced a bit