Treatment obliterating thrombangitis (burger's disease), endarteritis in Druskininkai

Systemic chronic processes affecting small and medium peripheral arteries and veins. Symptoms are: intermittent claudication, Raynaud's syndrome, superficial migratory thrombophlebitis of the extremities, pain in the calves and feet when walking, pain in hands and forearms when working with hands, fingers turn pale, feet and hands become sensitive to cold, hemorrhages and nodules are formed on the finger pads. If the disease affects the coronary arteries, then the risk of developing angina and myocardial infarction is high. Ischemia of the lower extremities is dangerous with obliterating endarteritis, which at the initial stage is manifested by weakness in the legs, chilliness and numbness, and during long-term progression it becomes ulcer-necrotic, then - in gangrene. Treatment is predominantly medicamental; training walk, physiotherapy, spa treatment are shown. With ineffectiveness, surgical treatment is indicated, in extreme cases - limb amputation.