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    Raynaud's disease and Buerger's disease are both conditions that affect the blood vessels, with Raynaud's disease typically affecting the fingers and toes and causing discoloration from reduced blood flow in response to cold or stress, while Buerger's disease affects blood vessels in the arms and legs and can lead to pain, tissue damage, and gangrene from blood clots and inflammation. Both conditions have risk factors including autoimmune diseases, chemical exposure, smoking, and repetitive motions, and treatments involve smoking cessation, avoiding cold exposure, medications like vasodilators and anticoagulants, and potentially surgery.

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    Raynaud's disease and Buerger's disease are both conditions that affect the blood vessels, with Raynaud's disease typically affecting the fingers and toes and causing discoloration from reduced blood flow in response to cold or stress, while Buerger's disease affects blood vessels in the arms and legs and can lead to pain, tissue damage, and gangrene from blood clots and inflammation. Both conditions have risk factors including autoimmune diseases, chemical exposure, smoking, and repetitive motions, and treatments involve smoking cessation, avoiding cold exposure, medications like vasodilators and anticoagulants, and potentially surgery.

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    Raynaud's disease and Buerger's disease are both conditions that affect the blood vessels, with Raynaud's disease typically affecting the fingers and toes and causing discoloration from reduced blood flow in response to cold or stress, while Buerger's disease affects blood vessels in the arms and legs and can lead to pain, tissue damage, and gangrene from blood clots and inflammation. Both conditions have risk factors including autoimmune diseases, chemical exposure, smoking, and repetitive motions, and treatments involve smoking cessation, avoiding cold exposure, medications like vasodilators and anticoagulants, and potentially surgery.

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    Raynauds and Buerguers Disease

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    Raynaud's disease and Buerger's disease are both conditions that affect the blood vessels, with Raynaud's disease typically affecting the fingers and toes and causing discoloration from reduced blood flow in response to cold or stress, while Buerger's disease affects blood vessels in the arms and legs and can lead to pain, tissue damage, and gangrene from blood clots and inflammation. Both conditions have risk factors including autoimmune diseases, chemical exposure, smoking, and repetitive motions, and treatments involve smoking cessation, avoiding cold exposure, medications like vasodilators and anticoagulants, and potentially surgery.

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    Raynaud's disease causes blood vessels, usually in the fingers and toes, to narrow in response to cold or stress, preventing blood flow and causing discoloration. Buerger's disease affects blood vessels in the arms and legs, causing swelling and potential clots, pain, tissue damage and gangrene.

    Cold fingers or toes and color changes in the skin in response to cold or stress (white or bluish). Also numbness, pain, and skin changes upon warming.

    Avoiding cold exposure, smoking cessation, wearing protective gloves and clothing, vasodilator medications, sympathetic nerve blocks, amputations in severe cases.

    CHRISTIE V.

    MONTANO

    RAYNAUDS DISEASE BUERGERS DISEASE

    Raynaud's disease is a Buerger's disease (also


    rare disorder of the blood known as thromboangiitis
    vessels, usually in the fingers obliterans) affects blood
    vessels in the body, most
    and toes. It causes the blood commonly in the arms and
    vessels to narrow when you legs. Blood vessels swell,
    are cold or feeling stressed. which can prevent blood flow,
    When this happens, blood causing clots to form. This can
    can't get to the surface of the lead to pain, tissue damage,
    skin and the affected areas and even gangrene (the death
    or decay of body tissues).
    turn white and blue.

    Causes & Risk Factors Autoimmune or Tobacco smoker


    connective tissue particularly those
    diseases: lupus, heavy smokers
    scleroderma, Occurs often in men
    polymyolitis, blood between 20 and 35
    disorders, thyroid years of age
    disorders, pulmonary
    hypertension,
    rheumatoid arthritis,
    Sjogren syndrome and
    atherosclerosis
    Chemical exposure
    Cigarette smoking
    Injury of trauma
    Repetitive actions
    Side effects from
    certain medicines

    Signs  Cold fingers or toes  Pain in the hands and


    &  Color change in the feet may feel like
    Symptoms skin in response to burning or tingling
    cold or stress ( white  Pain in the legs,
    or bluish) ankles, or feet when
     Numb, prickly or walking – often
    stinging pain upon located in the arch of
    warming or stress the foot
    relief  Inflamed veins,
    ulceration and
    gangrene
     Open sores on the
    toes and fingers
     Skin changes (rubor)
    or small painful sores
    on the fingers or toes
     Fingers or toes that
    appears pale, red, or
    bluish

    Interventions

     MEDICAL  Avoiding exposure to  Smoking cessation


    cold  Conservative
     Keeping warm with debridement of
    gloves, socks, scarf, necrotic tissue to treat
    and a hat during ulceration and
    extreme weathers. gangrene
     Smoking cessation  Regional sympathetic
     Wearing finger guards block or
    over the sores ganglionectomy
     Avoiding trauma or produces vasodilation
    vibrations to the hand and increases blood
    such as jack hammer flow
     Taking blood pressure  Sympathectomy to
    medicines during eliminate pain
    winter season  Angiogram
     Limb amputation for
    severe gangrene

     PHARMACOLOGIC
     Vasodilators  Vasodilators
    Captopril (CAPOTEN) Captopril (CAPOTEN)
    Lisinopril (PRINIVIL) Lisinopril (PRINIVIL)
    Benazepril (LOTENSIN) Benazepril (LOTENSIN)

     Anticoagulants  Anticoagulants
    Heparin Heparin
    Warfarin (COUMADIN) Warfarin (COUMADIN)

     NURSING o Educate the patient o Encourage the patient


    about the dangerous to stop smoking.
    side effects of o Advise the patient to
    cigarette smoking eat nutritious foods
    relating to the disease. and to do physical
    o Encourage the patient activities and
    to stop smoking exercises.
    o Remind the patient to o Educate the patient
    wear warm clothes the harmful effects of
    during winter season cigarette smoking in
    like thermal association with the
    shirt/jackets, gloves, disease
    bonnets, scarfs and o Assist the patient
    the like during surgical
    o Advise the patient to procedures.
    engage in exercise and
    healthy diet

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