REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATED W ITH A CIRCUMSCRIBED STENOSIS OF THE ABDOMINAL-AORTA - A CASE-REPORT

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a pain syndrome characterized by somatosensory and motor disturbances, as well as by autonomic and tro phic changes. The term is used in a descriptive sense and does not imp ly specific mechanisms of pathogenesis. We report on a patient who ful filled the clinical criteria of RSD and who also displayed increasing impairment of peripheral blood supply. Angiography revealed a circumsc ribed stenosis of the abdominal aorta adjacent to the bifurcation. Dis turbances in peripheral circulation as a potential cause of RSD are di scussed.