A Non-smoking Woman with Anti-phospholipid Antibodies Proved to Have Thromboangiitis Obliterans
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Thromboangiitis obliterans with cryoglobulinemia.
Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO), or Buerger's disease, is a vascular occlusive disease associated with cigarette smoking. It typically affects medium sized vessels of extremities. Basic pathology of TAO is described to be endothelial activation with highly inflammatory intraluminal thrombosis preserving internal elastic membrane. Cryoglobulins are immunoglobulins that precipitate in the cold a...
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Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) has been a recognized clinical entity for more than half a century (Buerger, 1908). Distal arterial occlusive disease and/or recurrent superficial thrombophlebitis occurring in an adult male smoker, in the absence of known cause, constitutes a distinctive and unmistakable syndrome (Brown, Allen, and Mahorner, 1928). However, the existence of this disorder has be...
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Thromboangiitis Obliterans is a non-atherosclerotic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, which has a strong association with tobacco. We present current concepts on the pathophysiology and diagnosis, as well as a review in treatments.
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.3372-19