Raynaud's Disease – Diseases of the Lymphatic System | Lecturio

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- Example: Male 18 years with pain in the tips of his fingers and toes
- Disambiguation: phenomenon, disease, syndrome
- Pathogenesis: Raynaud's phenomenon
- Common symptoms of Raynaud's phenomenon
- Diagnosis
- Treatment

► THE PROF: Your lecturer is Joseph Alpert M.D. He is Professor of Medicine at the Sarver Heart Center as well as Director of Coronary Care and Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the University of Arizona. Additionally, he is a member of the most important cardiologic institutions such as the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology. Because of his outstanding teaching proficiency he is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease and has won many teaching awards such as the George W. Thorn Award for Excellence in Teaching, the William Osler Master Teacher Award, and the Edward Rhodes Stitt Award for Outstanding Teaching. Furthermore, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Clinical Cardiology Council of the American Heart Association and was selected “Gifted Teacher of the Year” in 2004 by the American College of Cardiology.

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[eryionhetzel]

You are the first professional to mention the pain that occurs when blood flow returns to the fingers. Thank you!

[brendabiggar]

Made more sense than anyone I have heard.

[unicornisaurousx]

Who else gets judged for constantly wearing gloves and wooly socks to prevent a raynauds attack

[welder]

Yet another reason to move to Arizona.
thank you for the video

[ionationat]

The best lecturer & teacher. Congratulations !

[SilverSargent]

I have Raynauds, and this video helped a good bit to learn more about what I have :)

[xxxyyy]

I have Raynolds and i live in cold enviroment. Its really annoying when hands stop working and turn blue. Your hand strenght goes away and sometimes its difficult to open a door with keys etc. One thing that helps when you get inside is to take small amount of alcohol. You one sip from a bottle and in 10 minutes your hands are warm again. Using warm water also works but you would have to keep them under the water for several minutes. Also the symtoms are milder when you not tired and have eaten enought.

[rivkavermeij]

So I have this, and the doctor hasn't really looked into it. So I had oligoarticular JIA as a kid, I kind of grew out of it, but I think at the same time I think Raynaud started in my fingers and toes. So I thought maybe it's secondary then. However, my grandmother has it too, and my father has it very sporadically sometimes. It got better for me when I gained weight, now I don't get 'dead fingers' very often.

[bstrongnfit]

Thank you for a well explained definition. I experience the burning, tingling in winter conditions after a few minutes and it affects my job as a UPS carrier. I am trying to learn ways to handle this because wearing bulky gloves is not an option.

[ItsonlyKM]

Best explanation ever. I think I'm about to get a diagnosis.

[damesaphira]

Amazing, you said in 7 min. what others can't seem to get out in over an hour. I stopped smoking years ago, now I will be more diligent for avoiding cold. IF that does not work I will move up to meds. Thank you for concise advice!

[em]

What a perfect description of what happens, thank you. I had not heard the explanation you gave. Its definitely not just cold hands and feet or bad circulation. For what its worth, putting on weight helped the rest of the body assist, I think.

[RodrigoOswego]

Emotional stress causes reynauds in me.

[Sealust]

Thank you, and this was very informative and thorough. I have limited scleroderma with episodic raynaud's. From what you said, I believe I have raynaud's syndrome. I was diagnosed about 25 years ago. It is not easy to deal with, especially in the winter months, even though I live in the south. I pray that the medical field will come up with a cure for what I call a somewhat "freaky" condition like this.

[peridot-]

Very informative video.
I've had this since a child & now have Raynaud's phenomenon with MCTD with over 10 autoimmune diseases & it's the biting cold triggers through the body i find hard recovering from, it's like it's down into the bone structure of my body & i get numbness from the knees down into the feet & on a warm day in the shade having SCLE of the skin, i go into a freezing state in the evenings.
It's enough to mentally destroy a person.

[angieb]

Why aren't doctors using nailfold capillary dermatoscopy to diagnose Primary versus Secondary Raynaud's? It's easy and quite accurate in figuring out which one you have. This is important because treatment will be different.

[uNkLeRaRa]

My feet get cold and irritated all the time. Even indoors. It goes away at night, but is there most of the day. My hands don't usually bother me and there is no discolouration. I've had blood tests that shows everything is normal. I've checked my sugar and blood pressure, and they are good. The dr gave me blood pressure medication that I don't want to take because it makes you dizzy and tired. Help!!!

[whatsup]

Well, well, well.
Great to have this video with fully detailed info. Just got this symptoms last month in the winter and I thought I wore restricted attired with 5 fingers on my Rt hand went pale. Then it became 10 fingers when the winter becomes snap cold.

This is an alarming. And from the video I got two major dx in the secondary symptoms, SLE from my mum and I got lymphatic disease. Originally I though my heart vessels got clots and rule out of this possibility. BUT MY BLOOD O2 level indeed becomes low that I yawn every 30 second when the level went down in an open space. So this is the first alarming sign before Raynaud's Disease.

Now I know that I need to do more breathing exercise and wear some gloves/warmth to protect myself. Or this sense is really freaking me out. And this is the very first year to have such kind of symptom.
Hope it is nothing with blood clotting or cadio problem. still need to work out.

Thanks for the very precious and systematic info.

[paulmccormack]

I have Reynauds syndrome and it can get quite bad. Can be triggered very easily by the slightest drop in temp. Interesting that this video mentions a sympathectomy as a cure. I had that surgery nearly 30 years ago to reduce hyperhydrosis in my armpits. Res u lt of the surgery was that I sweat more everywhere else now but I can't remember if I had Reynard before that.

[LisaRichards_]

It is awful having this.
I moved from Denver to LA.
I really suffer from this.
After a few years of this, I tested positive for lupus.
What works for this, that doesn’t feel like you were shot in the head?