title: Buerger's disease and pulmonary hypertension: a rare association?
abstract: Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO), Buerger's disease, is an inflammatory thrombotic occlusive vascular disorder that typically involves small and medium-sized arteries of both the upper and lower extremities. This disease usually affects young adult males between the ages of 40 and 45 years old who smoke tobacco products. Clinically significant extrapulmonary involvement is exceptional. We describe a patient with elevated pulmonary arterial pressures associated with TAO who had no other discernible causes of secondary pulmonary hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN 37684-4000, USA.
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Abi-Saleh
authors.forename: Bernard Ahi
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Saleh
authors.forename: Carmelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chirculescu
authors.forename: Kevin L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Eggleston
authors.forename: Tamejiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takubo
authors.forename: Ryland P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Byrd
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications*