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Query: UMLS:C0042384 (
vasculitis
)
20,525
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) is a
vasculitis
with undulating clinical course multisegmentarily affecting small and medium-sized arteries and veins. The disease is closely linked to tobacco-use. Increasing knowledge of autoimmunologic mechanisms in the complex pathophyiology of the disease let to the formulation of an autoimmunity-hypothesis now serving as a new paradigma. New treatment options comprise progenitor-cell-therapy, immunoadsorption, use of sendothelin-receptor-blocking agent
Bosentan
, and prescriptions of antiphosphodiesterase-V-inhibitors.
...
PMID:[Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease): update 2015]. 2644 49
