[On a unified approach to nomenclature of sequelae from compression injuries and acute impairment of main blood circulation].

Different compression traumas and various acute disturbances of the main blood circulation, chiefly of extremities, result in similar ischemic and reperfusion lesions leading to the development of life-threatening endotoxicosis. In the literature there are diverse interpretations of these phenomena. These notions are not similar in medical Encyclopedia either. The authors consider that its pathogenetical essence must be called "postischemic endotoxicosis" or as an alternative "a reperfusion syndrome". For such interpretations to be complete in different clinical situations, it is necessary to mention the specific (or similar but different) causes of ischemia and its localization, and in such a diversity they can not have a common designation. So the interpretation of this pathology in such cases should consist of two parts--a pathogenetical basis common for all, and a diverse etiological characteristic.