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Raynaud's phenomenon precipitated by blood transfusion
Anaesthesia
|April 1, 1986
A patient undergoing surgery with spinal anaesthesia received a transfusion of concentrated red cells. Whenever the rate of blood transfusion reached a certain critical value, the symptoms and signs of Raynaud's phenomenon appeared in the hand distal to the site of the intravenous cannula. Possible causes of this transfusion-induced vasospasm are discussed.
A patient undergoing surgery with spinal anaesthesia received a transfusion of concentrated red cells. Whenever the rate of blood transfusion reached a certain critical value, the symptoms and signs of Raynaud's phenomenon appeared in the hand distal to the site of the intravenous cannula. Possible causes of this transfusion-induced vasospasm are discussed.