[Status of the mechanisms of autonomic regulation in Raynaud's disease].

Patients suffering from Raynaud's disease underwent clinicoelectrophysiological studies for the status of the segmental and autonomous nervous system. Based on the distribution of the patients' group with Raynaud's disease according to the type of the disease course and intensity of Raynaud's phenomenon, the author shows a relationship between the clinical manifestations of the leading phenomenon and disorders of sympathetic conduction in the limbs. That made it possible to suggest that peripheral vegetative neuropathy together with the well-defined psychovegetative syndrome may be implicated in the pathogenesis of Raynaud's disease.