%0 Journal Article %A Donald S. Stevens %A Valerie F. Robins %A Howard M. Price %T Treatment of Sympathetically Maintained Pain With Terazosin %D 1993 %R 10.1136/rapm-00115550-199318050-00012 %J Regional Anesthesia: The Journal of Neural Blockade in Obstetrics, Surgery, & Pain Control %P 318-321 %V 18 %N 5 %X Background and Objectives. α-adrenergic antagonists can be effective in the treatment of sympathetically maintained pain.Methods. Oral terazosin was prescribed to treat sympathetically maintained pain refractory to other therapies.Results. The authors describe a patient whose symptoms could not be controlled with commonly prescribed therapies, who obtained total relief of sympathetically maintained pain and vasospasm with terazosin, a new α1 antagonist.Conclusions. Terazosin is effective in the treatment of sympathetically maintained pain when given once daily because of a long elimination half-time and a long duration of action. This may encourage better patient compliance than do other alpha antagonists of shorter effective duration. %U https://rapm.bmj.com/content/rapm/18/5/318.full.pdf