Thromboangiitis Obliterans

Justine Smith; Manfred Zierhut

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_63

Thromboangiitis Obliterans

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Thromboangiitis obliterans takes its name from a paper presented in 1908 at a meeting of the Association of American Physicians. At that meeting, Leo Buerger, whose name is also attached to the disease, discussed a condition originally described by German physicians. The disease affected young adults and was characterized by thrombotic vascular occlusions of the lower limbs, with resultant ischemia that frequently led to gangrene. More recently, thromboangiitis obliterans has been defined as a “nonatherosclerotic segmental inflammatory disease that most commonly affects the small and medium-sized arteries, veins, and nerves of the arms and legs”. Although the exact prevalence is not known, the disease is rare; more cases are reported in the Middle East, the Far East, and Asia, than in the United States and Europe.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intraocular Inflammation
Editors	Manfred Zierhut, Carlos Pavesio, Shigeaki Ohno, Fernando Orefice, Narsing A. Rao
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	63
Pages	773-776
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540753872
ISBN (Print)	9783540753858
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_63
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
German Physician
Optic Disk Edema
Acute Retinal Necrosis
Thoracic Sympathectomy

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