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Buerger's disease
(redirected from thromboangiitis)

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Buerger's disease [′bər·gərz di‚zēz]


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A notation is that it also acts against such vascular diseases as thromboangiitis obliterans, or Buerger's disease, and perhaps against arteriosclerosis--a potential option against angioplasty or heart bypass surgery.
Discussion Buerger disease, known as thromboangiitis obliterans, is more prevalent in the Middle and Far East than it is in the United States.
Pathological studies have demonstrated that 70% of BFD patients have histologic lesions compatible with the changes of arteriosclerosis obliterans and 30% with the changes of thromboangiitis obliterans (Yeh and How 1963).
 
 
 
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