Treatment of lower limb ischemia in Behcet disease and Takayasu’s arteritis
CHEN Yue-xin
ZHOU Xiang
LIU Chang-wei
Abstract：Although peripheral arterial atherosclerosis is known to be a major etiologic factor for lower limb ischemia, if it occurs in young patients in the absence of traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis, other non-atherosclerotic conditions must be considered, such as vasculitides, fibromuscular dysplasia, lower limb artery embolism or aortic dissection. Vasculitides refer to a heterogenous group of disorders that are characterized by inflammation within blood vessels and thus result in organ perfusion dysfunction and tissue necrosis. Vasculitides can involve multiple systems, its clinical manifestation can take on various looks, and diagnosis and treatment can usually be rather difficult. Lower limb ischemia could be part of clinical picture in giant-cell arteritis, Takayasu’s arteritis, Buerger's disease, polyarteritis nodosa or Behcet disease. Surgeons should pay attention to the treatment of Beh?et disease and Takayasu’s arteritis, so as to improve the awareness of vasculitides as a rare cause of lower limb ischemia.
Keywords：behcet diseasetakayasu’s arteritislower limb ischemia
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1274-1277,1281 )