Sympathetic nerve blocks in refractory sympathetic dystrophy syndrome.


Published online: Mar 27 1999

D Hennart, M Leon, P Sylin, and T Appelboom.

Division of Anesthesiology, CUB Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Abstract

The authors tried to evaluate the benefit of sympathetic nerve blocks with guanethidine in 32 patients with a sympathetic dystrophy syndrome who failed to respond to conventional treatment.