Abnormal digital neurovascular response to local heating in systemic sclerosis

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 860-864

  Roustit, M ^a,b   Simmons, G H ^c   Carpentier, P ^a   Cracowski, Jean Luc ^a,b  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Neurovascular; Raynaud's phenomenon; Systemic sclerosis; Thermal hyperaemia

Indexed keywords

EMLA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AXONS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOREARM; HEAT; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRILOCAINE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 44849127934     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken065     Document Type: Article

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