Peripheral gangrene is one of the rarest presenting features in polyarteritis nodosa. A man with paralysed right upper and left lower limbs following poliomyelitis in infancy was admitted to hospital with supraventricular tachycardia and peripheral gangrene in the non-involved extremities. In an attempt to relieve the severe foot pain following an exacerbation of the arteritis, intermittent epi...

Case Reports Case 1. A male child was born in 1949 at term following a normal pregnancy and labour. His birth weight was 91 lb. Swelling of the feet was noted soon after birth. He was breast fed for two months and then reared on dried milk. On examination at the age of 6 weeks symmetrical pitting oedema of both feet extending a short distance up the legs was present. The hands were spared and n...

Gangrene of the extremities of venous origin is reviewed; it is a rare but distinct clinicopathologic entity hitherto not widely known. A classification of the cases of thrombophlebitis complicated with gangrene is presented, based on the presence of the peripheral pulses: (1) cases with palpable arteries; (2) cases with nonpalpable but patent arteries. Patency of the entire arterial system of ...

Gangrene of the extremities of venous origin is reviewed; it is a rare but distinct clinicopathologic entity hitherto not widely known. A classification of the cases of thrombophlebitis complicated with gangrene is presented, based on the presence of the peripheral pulses: (1) cases with palpable arteries; (2) cases with nonpalpable but patent arteries. Patency of the entire arterial system of ...

Digital gangrene in upper limbs may be due to systemic sclerosis, trauma, connective tissue disorders, vasculitic disorders and various myeloproliferative disorders or as a part of tropical diabetes hand syndrome which follows trauma. Peripheral arterial disease in diabetics commonly involves lower limbs. The present case, 45-year-old diabetic, presented with dry gangrene in fingertips of both ...