Introduction to vascular diseases

Traditional Chinese medicine calls peripheral blood vessels, so peripheral vascular diseases are collectively called "vascular diseases". Vascular diseases refer to vascular diseases that occur outside cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It can be divided into arterial diseases and venous diseases. Arterial diseases include arteriosclerosis obliterans, diabetic foot, thromboangiitis obliterans, arterial embolism, Takayasu arteritis, aneurysm, etc. It also includes diseases with dysfunction of arterial dilation and contraction in limbs, such as Raynaud's disease and erythromelalgia's disease. Venous diseases include thrombophlebitis, deep venous thrombosis, deep venous valve insufficiency, varicose veins and so on.