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90 years of Buerger's disease--what has changed?
Bratislavské Lekárske Listy 1999 March
Thromboangiitis obliterans or Winiwarter-Buerger's disease is a primary systemic vasculitis of an unknown etiology, which affects medium-sized arteries and veins mainly in the lower and upper extremities, causing multiple segmental arterial occlusions especially in young male smokers. The aim of our study is to compare the knowledge on the etiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities in the time of Leo Buerger (90 years ago) and now. Between 1994 and 1998, 26 patients (19 men and 7 women) were investigated with clinical suspicion for Winiwarter-Buerger's disease. Laboratory and arteriographic investigation revealed typical signs for this disease in 22 of them. To the most common clinical signs or symptoms belong smoking and the onset of the disease before the age of 50 years (in 95.5%), intermittent claudication (in 72.7%), rest pain and ischaemic ulcers or gangrenes in the fingers (in 68.2%). In slightly more than half of the patients migrating superficial thrombophlebitis was present and similarly in one half of the patients Raynaud's phenomenon was found. In conclusion--What has changed from the times of Leo Buerger? 1. Prevalence of TAO increased in women. 2. Older patients (more than 40 years old) are being diagnosed. 3. Upperextremity involvement is more frequently present. 4. Diagnosis of TAO is being more proper, especially due to up-to-date diagnostic methods, like digital subtraction angiography. 5. The treatment is more effective, amputation number is decreased. And what has not changed? Similarly like Leo Buerger we do not known the precise etiology of the disease. Ceasation of smoking has still the most important therapeutic procedure. The clinical course of the disease is individual and in spite of the treatment is the clinical course unpredictable. (Tab. 5, Ref. 47.)
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