Buerger's disease with multisystem involvement. A case report and a review of the literature

Angiology. 2004 May-Jun;55(3):325-8.

Abstract

Buerger's disease is a recurrent inflammatory, nonatherosclerotic vasoocclusive disease, which typically affects small and medium-sized arteries, veins, and nerves of the upper and lower extremities. Systemic manifestations involving cerebral, mesenteric, and coronary arteries are exceptional. Moreover, multisystem involvement of 2 or more organs is extremely rare. The authors present a case of Buerger's disease in a patient who subsequently developed cerebral and bowel infarcts as well as cavernomatous transformation of the portal vein. Therefore, Buerger's disease, although rare, does have a chronic aggressive nature in some patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Femoral Artery / pathology
  • Humans
  • Infarction / complications
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / complications
  • Intestines / blood supply
  • Male
  • Portal Vein / pathology
  • Thromboangiitis Obliterans / diagnosis*
  • Thromboangiitis Obliterans / pathology