title: Test for postischaemic hyperaemia: a means of clinical assessment of microcirculatory reactivity in tissues of patients with liability to seasonal ischaemic noxae.
abstract: The postischaemic hyperaemia test has been employed to study 30 cases, with a tendency to seasonal exacerbation, 5 at bronchial and 25 at articular level. It was found that in these cases with a tendency to seasonal peaks as many as 73% show an excessive postischaemic hyperaemia even in the phase of clinical normality. This excess regresses (strongly in 33% of the cases, very well in 47%, and moderately in 20%) after the administration of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs. By using physiocrenological treatments with waters of high iodine content (baths and aerosol-type inhalations) it is possible to obtain in over 60% of the cases (after an initial increase, a so-called thermal crisis) a definite attenuation of the postischaemic hyperaemia. The study points out the clinical usefulness of the test in sorting out the cases in which drugs might induce an iatrogenic block of the physiological hyperaemia due to work.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000503:physiopathology; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006940:Hyperemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D007213:Indomethacin / Q000494:pharmacology; D007455:Iodine / Q000494:pharmacology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012621:Seasons
chemical_list: D007455:Iodine; D007213:Indomethacin