Non-Specific Obliterative Angiitis

Peripheral Vascular Obstruction in Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Relationship to other Vascular Lesions

“…Summary Ten cases of rheumatoid arthritis have been described, which showed vessel obliteration associated with symptoms ranging from small infarcts, presenting as brown lesions of the nail-fold, nail-edge, or digital pulp, to gangrene of all four limbs with visceral lesions. This is not thought to represent polyarteritis nodosa or Buerger's disease, but to resemble more closely the arterial changes seen in scleroderma and lupus erythematosus, and perhaps also the changes described as "remittent necrotizing acrocyanosis" (Edwards, 1956) or "nonspecific obliterative angiitis" (Pennock and Primas, 1956). None showed the ordinary symptoms of Buerger's disease, although all except one were ambulant.…”

“…On ne croit pas que cela represente la polyarterite noueuse ou la maladie de Burger, mais plut6t les alterations arterielles rencontrees dans la sclerodermie et le lupus erythemateux, et peut-etre aussi, celles decrites comme "acrocyanose necrotisante remittente" (Edwards, 1956) ou "angeite obliterante nonspecifique" (Pennock et Primas, 1956). Aucun des malades ne presentait les sympt6mes ordinaires de la maladie de Burger, bien que tous, sauf un, marchassent.…”