Abstract
Functional angiopathies are chronic circulatory disorders affecting terminal vessels – arterioles, capillaries, and venules – of the skin. In this context, clinical pictures can be characterized that have in common an altered thermoregulation of vasomotor activity in acral body regions: vascular acro-syndromes. Anomalies with primary vasospasticity in the inflow area can be distinguished from those with increased blood supply. Although a considerable subjective burden of disease may exist in individual cases, these disturbances of the microcirculation, which are mostly based on constitutional vegetative factors, are relatively harmless in contrast to the organic vascular damage that can be occur with organic vascular diseases.
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Kaufmann, R. (2020). Functional Angiopathies. In: Plewig, G., French, L., Ruzicka, T., Kaufmann, R., Hertl, M. (eds) Braun-Falco´s Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58713-3_63-1
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