title: Buerger's disease affecting mesenteric arteries: a rare cause of intestinal ischemia--a case report.
abstract: Buerger's disease is a recurrent, inflammatory, segmental, vasoocclusive disease. Typically, the disease affects middle-aged male smokers and involves arteries and veins of extremities. Buerger's disease involving visceral vessels is rare. The authors report on a 51-year-old man with peripheral arterial disease and recurrent intestinal ischemia secondary to Buerger's disease. Clinical and histopathologic features of this case illustrate the life-threatening nature of visceral involvement in Buerger's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA.
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Siddiqui
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Soundararajan
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Kerstein
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines / Q000098:blood supply*; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D017538:Mesenteric Artery, Superior / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications*