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  • Title: Revisiting cerebral thromboangiitis obliterans.
    Author: Hurelbrink CB, Barnett Y, Buckland ME, Wilkinson M, Leicester J, Anderson C, Brennan J, Barnett M.
    Journal: J Neurol Sci; 2012 Jun 15; 317(1-2):141-5. PubMed ID: 22502946.
    Abstract:
    We describe a 56-year-old patient with progressive cognitive decline in the context of heavy tobacco use and migraine, and imaging evidence of an occlusive terminal cerebral vasculopathy. The results of brain biopsy recapitulated the pathological features described by Lindenberg and Spatz in their classic 1939 treatise on cerebral thromboangiitis obliterans, or cerebral Buerger's disease. Although the condition is associated with heavy smoking, the identification of a hypercoagulable state in our patient suggests a multifactorial pathogenesis. The diagnosis of cerebral thromboangiitis obliterans in life is facilitated by modern neuroimaging and should prompt immediate cessation of smoking and a search for an underlying prothrombotic tendency.
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