Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Periodontology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
Biography
Recent studies have suggested that infectious organisms play a role in vascular diseases. In this study, to explore a possible link between oral infection and Buerger disease, we investigated whether oral (periodontal) bacteria were present in occluded arteries removed from patients with characteristic Buerger disease.
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