Homocysteine and “Buerger’s disease”
- 1Department of Medicine, Craigavon Area Hospital, Portadown, Northern Ireland, UK
- 2Department of Clinical Biochemistry
- Correspondence to: Dr Peter Sharpe, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Craigavon Area Hospital, 68 Lurgan Road, Portadown, Northern Ireland BT63 5QQ, UK; psharpe{at}cahgt.n-i.nhs.uk
- Received 29 January 2002
- Accepted 25 March 2002
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A 42 year old woman presented with ischaemic left leg pain. There had been a right above knee amputation two years previously when Buerger’s disease was diagnosed. However, on review of the arteriogram there was proximal disease in …








