Causes of swollen calves in men

The causes of calf swelling in men are generally cardiac edema, renal edema, hepatic edema or malnutrition edema. When men have calf swelling, they should carefully analyze the specific causes, which will be very helpful for us to treat calf swelling. Let us take a closer look at the causes of calf swelling in men. I hope you can read it carefully.

Cardiogenic edema: When right heart failure occurs due to various heart diseases, venous blood cannot flow smoothly back to the left ventricle, causing the intravenous pressure to increase and body fluid to leak into the tissue space, causing edema, which first appears in the ankles and eventually spreads throughout the body.

Renal edema is caused by acute or chronic nephritis or kidney disease. When the blood flow of the kidney is reduced, sodium and water are retained, capillary permeability is increased, and the plasma colloid osmotic pressure is reduced due to excessive protein loss in the urine. All of these can cause fluid accumulation in the interstitial space and cause edema. Although edema is common in the lower limbs, it first appears in the eyelids and face, then spreads to the lower limbs and the whole body, and is accompanied by symptoms such as oliguria or nocturia and polyuria.

Hepatic edema is mainly due to the destruction of liver structure during cirrhosis, which causes obstruction of portal venous reflux and increased portal venous pressure, but it is also related to malnutrition and low plasma albumin during liver failure. The edema starts from the ankles and spreads upward, but is most obvious in the form of significant ascites, and rarely affects the upper limbs and head and face.

Malnutrition edema occurs when the plasma albumin level decreases due to nutritional disorders. It first appears in the lower limbs and gradually spreads upward and throughout the body. Before the edema, there is malnutrition, malabsorption or chronic wasting disease.

Localized lower limb edema is mostly caused by obstruction of the lower limb veins and lymphatic vessels, resulting in body fluids entering the tissue spaces. For example, lower limb thrombotic phlebitis, lymphangitis, filariasis, pelvic or lower limb tumors compress the veins. Swelling often occurs in one lower limb and generally does not spread throughout the body.

Regarding the causes of calf swelling in men introduced in the article, we suggest that male friends can choose the treatment method according to their own causes in life. For calf swelling caused by malnutrition, we hope that male friends can adjust their diet in time, and for calf swelling caused by kidneys, the kidneys should be treated.