[Characteristics of disorders of body functions in post-thrombophlebitic disease]

397 patients with chronic diseases of the extremities veins were examined, 256 of them suffered postthrombophlebitic disease. Along with the general clinical examination special investigations were conducted: ECG under orthostatic stress conditions, test tube and instrumental auto-coagulograms, thromboelastograms, biomicroscopy of the anterior ocular segment, studies of the intraocular pressure, ocular fundus, rheovasography, skin thermometry, oscillometry (with nitroglycerin stress), the extremity volume under orthostatic stress conditions, myography, non-contrast roentgenography of the lower extremities, and also the phenomenon of intradermal diffusion and pheblography. It was found that with the progress of postthrombophlebitis trophic disorders are observed in all tissues of the involved extremity. Postthrombophlebitic disease is associated not only with local involvement of vessels, but also with functional disturbances of other organs.