Vacuum-assisted wound closure for the management of a foot ulcer due to Buerger's disease

Thromboangiitis Obliterans

“…Negative-pressure wound therapy may have role in the treatment debilitating complex chronic ulcers in patients with TAO [149][150][151]. Given the lack of supportive data, hyperbaric oxygen therapy should be considered only in patients with ischemic ulcers, osteomyelitis, or necrotizing fasciitis who are refractory to other forms of treatment [112,[152][153][154][155][156][157][158].…”