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Angiology
September 2005
Department of Vascular Surgery, Athens University Medical School, General Prefecture Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece.
A 65-year-old man, a heavy smoker with Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans), presented to this department with persistent severe ischemic rest pain at the fingers of his right hand, not responding to oral treatment with vasodilators and analgesics. Critical blood flow was discovered in the middle, ring, and little finger, with ischemic ulcerations apparent in the fingertips of these 3 fingers. The distal phalanx of the little finger had been amputated 6 months before because of gangrenous necrosis.
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April 2003
Department of Pharmacology and Human Physiology, Medical School, University of Bari, Piazza G. Cesare, 70124 Bari, Italy.
1. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a condition that involves proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukins 1beta and 6 (ILs). In this disease, it has been shown that an abnormal microcirculatory system is implicated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe mechanisms by which xenobiotics may cause or promote thrombosis include vascular damage, induction of a hypercoagulable state and disturbances of blood flow. This paper discusses the methods available to detect various types of thrombogenic substances. Pathomorphological techniques are best suited to demonstrate thrombosis caused by localized vascular damage or generalized endothelial lesions.
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