Bahare Fazeli, Pavel Poredos, Matija Kozak, Zsolt Pecsvarady, Mariella Catalano, Mussaad M Al Salman, Louay Altarazi, Abrar A Ali, Abul H Bashar, Kursat Bozkurt, Daniel Cacione, Benjamin Chua, Ivan Cvjetko, Sanjay Desai, Dilek Erer, Katalin Farkas, Phaniraj Gaddikeri, Georgios Geroulakos, Orkut Guclu, Emad Hussein, Mihai Ionac, Takehisa Iwai, Oguz Karahan, Daniel Kashani, Albert Kota, Knut Kroger, Emre Kubat, Prabhu P Kumar, Werner Lang, Kirill Lobastov, Rafal Malecki, Antonella Marcoccia, Alper Ozbakkaloglu, Sandeep R Pandey, Malay Patel, Adil Polat, Angampally Rajeev, Hassan Ravari, Vimalin Samuel, Gerit Schernthaner, Dheepak Selvaraj, Umut S Sanri, Nuttawut Sermsathanasawadi, Hiva Sharebiani, Agata Stanek, Edwin Stephen, Andrzej Szuba, Wassila Taha, Hossein Taheri, Jean-Claude Wautrecht, Hendro S Yuwono, Mustafa H Zor, Aaron Liew
Buerger's disease (BD) remains a debilitating condition and early diagnosis is paramount for its effective management. Despite many published diagnostic criteria for BD, selective criteria have been utilized in different vascular centers to manage patients with BD worldwide. A recent international Delphi Consensus Study on the diagnostic criteria of BD showed that none of these published diagnostic criteria have been universally accepted as a gold standard. Apart from the presence of smoking, these published diagnostic criteria have distinct differences between them, rendering the direct comparison of patient outcomes difficult...
October 2023: International Angiology: a Journal of the International Union of Angiology