Publications by authors named "Vlayko E Vodenicharov"
Background: The objective of the study was to assess skin autonomic microvascular reactivity to sympathetic stimulations and its association with primary and secondary Raynaud's phenomenon (RP).
Methods: Laser-Doppler recorded finger pulp skin blood flow was monitored during orthostatic and deep breathing tests of 4 subjects groups, each of them composed of 20 subjects: group 1, healthy controls; group 2, vibration-induced secondary RP (vRP); group 3, primary RP (pRP); group 4, systemic sclerosis-related secondary RP (sclRP). Within groups comparisons by Wilcoxon matched pairs rank test and between groups by Bonferroni's multiple test for unpaired data were done using SPSS Statistics software.