[Prognosis of the effect of sympathectomy of the extremity in obliterating lesions of the major arteries].

Indices of the central hemodynamics were studied by the method of integral rheography in 76 male patients with obliterating lesions of the lower extremity arteries. The elasticity of the arterial vascular bed in these patients was found to reduce. It proved to be possible not only to estimate the effects of operative desympathization of the lower extremities but also to prognoze its nearest results by the data of temporal chemical desympathization of the lumbar ganglia by novocain or peridural blockade.