What is Buerger's Disease? Leo Buerger first identified Thromboangiitis obliterans in 1908. This medical condition is now typically called Buerger's Disesase; it's a disease that restricts blood flow in the small and medium arteries. In this fairly rare condiiton,...
Abstract: Wounds refractory to standard treatment in patients with thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO, Buerger's disease) are associated with amputation, other morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen treatment...
Abstract: Cannabis is the most consumed psychoactive substance by young people. Chronic use of cannabis can lead to cannabis arteritis, which is a very rare peripheral vascular disease similar to Buerger's disease. It is affecting young adults, especially men,...
Abstract: Ischemic wounds unresponsive to standard treatment in thromboangiitis obliterans are associated with amputation, morbidity, and mortality. In this study, hyperbaric oxygen therapy was added to standard treatment of 36 patients with thromboangiitis obliterans...
Abstract: The treatment of critical limb ischemia (CLI), which is the end stage of arteriosclerosis obliterans and/or Buerger's disease, provides the ischemic tissue with oxygen, and arterial revascularization procedures such as bypass surgery and...
Abstract: Many patients suffering from severe ischemic limb disease inevitably experience amputation, despite intensive therapies. Sympathectomy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy are optional therapies for patients with peripheral circulation disorders. Recently, several...
Abstract: Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) is an uncommon to rare vasculitis of small and medium arteries and veins typically affecting young male smokers. Inflammatory arthritis has only been rarely reported in association with TAO. We describe the case of a young...
Abstract: Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans) is an uncommon vascular occlusive disease most commonly affecting the lower extremities of young male tobacco smokers. We report the case of a thirty-five-year-old man who presented with nonhealing ulcerations...
Abstract: In cases of ischemic extremities and diabetes mellitus, the trauma on finger and toe is very intractable. For such injuries amputation of extremity is indicated very often because of severe necrosis. The number of such cases has been increasing recently...
Abstract: Thirty-two cases with clostridial gas gangrene were treated during the years 1971-87 in the Department of Surgery, Turku University Central Hospital. The presumptive diagnosis was made on the basis of the clinical appearance of the patient and presence of...
