Difficulties of differential diagnostics of atherosclerotic disease and systemic vasculitis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34687/2219-8202.JAD.2021.02.0006Keywords:
multifocal atherosclerosis, peripheral atherosclerosis, dyslipidaemia, thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease), systemic vasculitisAbstract
The article represents a clinical case of a patient with multifocal atherosclerosis, varicose disease of the lower extremities and genetically determined thrombophilia. According to currently available data, atherosclerosis is the main cause of lower limb artery disease. The atherosclerotic process often extends to various vascular pool leading to multifocal damage of the arterial bed, causing various clinical manifestations and making it difficult to give a complete diagnostic concept, especially in case of comorbidity.
Differential diagnosis of such diseases of the lower extremities arteries as obliterating atherosclerosis and systemic vasculitis is an urgent issue in modern medicine, because diagnostic errors lead to the wrong choice of treatment tactics and, accordingly, to unsatisfactory results.