buerger's disease is an occlusive inflammatory disease of the small and medium-sized arteries and accounts for a variable proportion of patients with peripheral vascular disease throughout the world. the aim of this study was to review the records of buerger's disease patients admitted to surgery wards of our university hospitals. 277 patients with buerger's disease were surgically treated betw...

CHRONIC occlusive arterial diseases are the most common and the most disabling of all peripheral vascular disorders. Some of the causes of chronie arterial occlusion are arteriosclerosis obliterans, thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease), primary arterial thrombosis, which presumably results froni hypercoagulable blood, embolism, which is almost always associated with heart disease or p...

A stroke due to vascular occlusion in a young person can raise many diagnostic and prognostic problems. In the following case report hemiplegia of sudden onset occurred in a young man followed by partial recovery without a definite diagnosis being made, despite full investigation. Further progression of the disease leading to death two years later enabled a complete pathological investigation t...

Figure 1. Black and gangrenous eschar tissue in the right third digit previously amputated to the middle phalanx with distal gangrene and erythema around the right middle metacarpophalangeal joint.

Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger disease) is an occlusive, nonatherosclerotic, inflammatory vasculitis that causes ischemia in small and medium vessels. Most commonly, Buerger disease is diagnosed in 40- to 45-year-old men with a heavy smoking history. Our case exemplifies the most common presentation, diagnosis, and treatment in a 53-year-old male smoker who presents with arm pain and dusky...

Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO, or Buerger's disease) is a rare inflammatory vasculitis that commonly involves small and medium-sized arteries of the extremities of tobacco smokers between the ages of 25 and 50 years. Although the diagnosis is based on the clinical picture and angiographic findings, we studied the microvascular involvement by nailfold capillaroscopy. We evaluated by nailfold c...

A peculiar coexistence of axial spondyloarthritis and ischemia of the feet and the fourth finger of the left hand in a young woman, who was a heavy smoker, is discussed in this report. This picture was considered within the context of thromboangiitis obliterans. Positivity of anti-nuclear antibodies and mild elevation of inflammatory parameters were noted. Computed tomography angiograms of uppe...