["Vibration white finger" syndrome in 8 grinders of a large metal manufacturing industry]

Eight patients with vibration white finger syndrome (VWF) were seen in our angiological outpatient department. They were all turbine grinders working in the same large factory. One patient presented with a pronounced Raynaud's phenomenon only, while all the others additionally complained of numbness, weakness and pain affecting both hands.

We requested an intra-arterial DSA of the right hand of all patients, which in some patients revealed, in addition to severe vasospasm, also blood vessel breaks. The patient who apparently was exposed to vibration the longest also had aneurysms affecting the capillaries of all fingers.