OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and prevalence of thromboangiitis obliterans in Taiwan in the period spanning from 2002 to 2011. METHODS We identified all incident and prevalent cases with a diagnosis of thromboangiitis obliterans (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision code 443.1) in the period spanning from 2002 to 2011 using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research...

INTRODUCTION Thromboangiitis obliterans or Buerger's disease is a nonatherosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory vasculitis that is strongly associated with tobacco products and commonly affects the small- and medium-sized arteries of the upper and lower extremities. However, the disease can, rarely, involve large central or visceral arteries. We report here the case of end stage renal disease due...

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THROMBOANGIITIS obliterans has been considered to be a disease of the blood vessels which usually affects the vessels of the limbs. It has been established, however, that it can affect any of the blood vessels in the body, including those which supply the brain and the retina. This is the report of a case which presented with vitreous haemorrhage, and in which the diagnosis of thromboangiitis o...

Case presentation: A 39-year-old male smoker with a 2-year history of calf discomfort on ambulation culminating in left femoral-to-peroneal artery bypass presented with right leg discomfort and recurrent painful subcutaneous nodules on his feet and calves. Biopsy of a nodule from his right foot was interpreted as vasculitis with thrombosis and fibrinoid necrosis in subcutaneous vessels, and the...

Nine cases of cerebrovascular thromboangiitis obliterans were observed among 1700 cases of peripheral thromboangiitis obliterans. These, with 30 acceptable cases from the literature, are analyzed. Smoking appears to activate the disease, which is characterized by, recurrences and remissions of focal cortical signs due to thrombosis of cerebral arteries and cortical granular atrophy. Of my patie...

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...

were decreased in patients with arteriosclerosis and thromboangiitis obliterans, or Raynaud's phenomena. Mean digital pressures correlated well with clinical and angiographic findings. In arteriosclerosis obliterans digital pressures in the limbs with claudication averaged 43% of the brachial pressure, and in patients with rest pain or skin lesions, or both, 21%. The ankle-to-toe pressure diffe...