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Southern Medical Journal:
July 2008 - Volume 101 - Issue 7 - pp 748-749
doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817c13d2
Case Report

Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Buerger Disease and Anticardiolipin Antibodies

Pereira de Godoy, José Maria MD; Braile, Domingo Marcolino MD; Torres, Carlos Alexandre Andrade MD

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Abstract

We report two cases of acute compartment syndrome in the anterior compartment of the lower limbs of patients with the diagnosis of Buerger disease associated with positive anticardiolipin antibodies. We comment on the rarity of the case and on the possibility of interference of two associated thrombogenic conditions. The need for early fasciotomy is emphasized since the progression to necrosis is time dependent. Fasciotomy was the only reperfusion surgery utilized on these patients with resolution of the ischemia.

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