Reactive hyperemia
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- Human postocclusive forearm skin reactive hyperemia is not only a potential means of identifying early signs of cardiovascular diseases, it can also be used in the assessment of local microvascular response to topically applied compounds on skin.
- However, in situations were patients are unable to carry out the treadmill exam, reactive hyperemia is an excellent and efficient alternative for differential diagnosis.
- Reactive hyperemia is mainly controlled by the endothelium, whereas local heating abolishes completely the cutaneous vascular smooth muscle tone independent of the presence of endothelium.
- Minson Department of Exercise and Movement Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1240 Submitted 12 March 2003 ; accepted in final form 6 April 2003 Reactive hyperemia is the sudden rise in blood flow after release of an arterial occlusion.
- Manipulating the hyperemic flow patterns through multiple repetitive reactive hyperemia procedures may have an effect on the sensitivity of the vasodilator response of the endothelium.
- reactive hyperemia Medical reactive hyperemia n.
- e61 ELECTRONIC ARTICLE: Reactive Hyperemia and Interleukin 6,Interleukin 8,and Tumor Necrosis Factor- in the Diagnosis of Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis Received Feb 1,2001; accepted May 24,2001.
- Myogenic, neurogenic, local me- tabolic factors as well as the vascular (Hellenic Journal of Cardiology) HJC 108 Acute Administration of Vitamin C Prolongs the Duration of Forearm Reactive Hyperemia in Patients with Hypercholesterolemia A THANASIOS D.
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