KROK 1 2012 – Question 57 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology

A patient with obliterating endarteritis underwent ganglionic sympathectomy. What type of arterial hyperaemia should have developed as a result of the surgery?

  1. A. Reactive
  2. B. Metabolic
  3. C. Neurotonic
  4. D. Functional
  5. E. Neuroparalytic
Hint

Think about which neural influence on the arterial wall is lost when sympathetic ganglia are removed, and how that changes vascular tone.

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