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Acute vasospastic attack after extradural block in a patient with Raynaud's disease
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0048, USA.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|May 29, 2000
Abstract
Implications:
Raynaud's disease is an episodic and debilitating disease of the circulation to the fingers and toes. This case report describes an acute exacerbation of Raynaud's disease in a patient undergoing surgery with epidural anesthesia. This potentially hazardous complication has not been previously reported.