Muscle perfusion and the healing of below knee amputations.
Muscle pH has been used to assess the perfusion of the muscles at the site of below knee amputation in 20 patients having ischemia at the periphery. The results show that a muscle pH above 7.0 did not correlate with the outcome of amputation but that, when the pH was below 7.00, healing was never achieved.
D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007511:Ischemia / Q000601:surgery; D007717:Knee; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D009132:Muscles; D010477:Perfusion; D014945:Wound Healing