The hazard of cigarette smoking following digital replantation.
Two case histories are presented in which cigarette smoking in the early postoperative period following digital replantation led to vasospasm and thus compromise of the microvascular anastomoses.
D000328:Adult; D000673:Amputation, Traumatic / Q000601:surgery; D002196:Capillaries; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D012092:Replantation; D012907:Smoking; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013933:Thumb / Q000098:blood supply