Buerger's disease

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Treatments and drugs

By Mayo Clinic staff

No treatments can cure Buerger's disease. Instead, your doctor may try various treatment approaches to reduce any signs and symptoms you have. Options include:

  • Counseling or medications to help you stop smoking and stop the swelling in your blood vessels
  • Medications to improve blood flow or to dissolve blood clots
  • Surgery to cut the nerves in the affected area (surgical sympathectomy) to control pain
  • Amputation, if infection or gangrene occurs

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Sept. 20, 2008

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