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Gangrene, Vasomotor and Trophic Disorders, 1 Leo Buerger, MD, was the first to describe dependent rubor associated with marked atherosclerosis. Buerger introduced several new physical signs for vascular conditions, including gangrene and peripheral vascular disease. Buerger emphasized the importance of recognizing potential symptoms associated with chronic atherosclerosis before gangrene is apparent, such as absent pulses, extremity coldness, foot and toe ulcers, impaired nail growth, poor capillary refill, foot pallor with limb elevation, and redness of the limb in the dependent position. Rubor involving the toes, sometimes the dorsal (Figure ) and plantar (Figure ) aspects of the foot at varying distances on a limb (to the ankle or higher) in the dependent or horizontal position, is a phenomenon Buerger termed erythromelalgia (Greek. erythrós, red; melia, limb). Terms such as dependent rubor, chronic rubor, reactionary rubor, induced rubor, and hyperemic response have also been used to describe erythromelalgia (or erythromelia). Although Buerger stated that erythromelalgia was most characteristic of thromboangiitis obliterans, it was also found with marked atherosclerotic oc

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Author

William F. Wright; Manu Rajachandran

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)