PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stevens, Donald S.
AU  - Robins, Valerie F.
AU  - Price, Howard M.
TI  - Treatment of Sympathetically Maintained Pain With Terazosin
AID  - 10.1136/rapm-00115550-199318050-00012
DP  - 1993 Sep 01
TA  - Regional Anesthesia: The Journal of Neural Blockade in Obstetrics, Surgery, & Pain Control
PG  - 318--321
VI  - 18
IP  - 5
4099  - http://rapm.bmj.com/content/18/5/318.short
4100  - http://rapm.bmj.com/content/18/5/318.full
SO  - Reg Anesth Pain Med1993 Sep 01; 18
AB  - 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.