KROK 1 2010 – Question 169 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient with obliterating atherosclerosis underwent sympathectomy of femoral artery in the region of femoral trigone. What type of arterial hyperemia was induced by the operation?
- A. Functional
- B. Reactive
- C. Neurotonic
- D. Metabolic
- E. Neuroparalytic
Hint
Consider what removing sympathetic innervation does to the tone of the arterial smooth muscle, and classify the hyperaemia by its mechanism.
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