title: Two female nonsmoker Buerger's disease cases with anticardiolipin autoantibodies and a poor prognosis.
abstract: We present two female nonsmoker Buerger's disease cases with anticardiolipin autoantibodies and a poor prognosis. One was a 64-year-old female who has had multiple lower and upper extremity amputations, while the other was a 32-year-old female with extremity and visceral artery involvement. Since both were positive for anticardiolipin antibodies, we speculate that Buerger's disease is an autoimmune disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Social Security Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gulumser
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heper
authors.forename: Sedat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kose
authors.forename: Ozkan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Akkoc
authors.forename: Basri
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amasyali
authors.forename: Ayhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kilic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D017153:Antibodies, Anticardiolipin / Q000097:blood*; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000276:immunology*; D017535:Ulnar Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
chemical_list: D017153:Antibodies, Anticardiolipin; D001323:Autoantibodies