Treatment of Buerger's disease with electrical spinal cord stimulation--review of three cases.
Buerger's disease or obliterating thromboangiitis is an inflammatory pathologic condition affecting the distal vascular segments; it strikes young adults, especially males and heavy smokers. Medical and surgical treatment often fail to heal these patients, especially considering the frequent relapse of this disease linked with tobacco abuse--definitive healing often involves limb amputation. Electrical spinal cord stimulation is evaluated in this study with an analgesic aim and for improvement in skin microcirculation, with the goal of long-term healing of diseased limbs.
Chierichetti
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IRCCS Pol. S. Matteo, Università di Pavia, Italy.
Mambrini
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Bagliani
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Odero
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D000328:Adult; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000502:physiology*; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000628:therapy*