systemic vasculitis/nicotine

Levamisole is an antihelminthic and immunomodulator medication that was banned by the USFDA in 1998. It has been increasingly used to adulterate cocaine due to its psychotropic effects and morphological properties. Adverse reactions including cutaneous vasculitis, thrombocytopenia, and

Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) is systemic vasculitis with predominant development of thrombotic occlusions of small-to-medium diameter arteries of distal portions of both upper and lower limbs. A distinctive feature of Buerger's disease from other vasculitides is the involvement of

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the clinical spectrum of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA). METHODS We report 2 cases of HOA and performed a computer-assisted search of Medline/PubMed for the medical literature from 1960 to June 2008 using the keywords HOA, periostitis, and clubbing. These were also

Buerger's disease, or thromboangiitis obliterans, is a primary systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology, that affects the arteries and veins of medium and small caliber, causing inflammatory thrombotic phenomena primarily in young smokers. The authors present a review of the cases followed in