title: [Pressure behavior in muscle compartments of the foot in defined stress, metatarsal and ankle joint fractures].
abstract: In addition to the importance of compartment syndrome in the lower leg, a growing interest is being shown in the muscle compartments of the foot region. The standard pressure rates in the muscle compartments of the foot comprise up to 4 kPa for men and up to 2.5 kPa for women. During graded exercise (n = 9) on the treadmill the pressure increased in line with the strain and declined again rapidly when the exercise stopped without showing any significant differences in pressure between the muscle compartments studied. In metatarsal and ankle joint fractures post-traumatic pressures were found which were as high as or higher than after 20 minutes on the treadmill and would make the development of a compartment syndrome possible. This points to the necessity of measuring the pressure in the muscle compartments of the patient's foot when there is a clinical suspicion of a compartment syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemeinchirurgie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zippel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Köcher
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Domagk
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D016512:Ankle Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008682:Metatarsal Bones / Q000293:injuries*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012016:Reference Values; D016474:Weight-Bearing / Q000502:physiology*
vernacular_title: Das Druckverhalten in den Muskellogen des Fusses bei definierter Belastung, Metatarsal- und Sprunggelenksfrakturen.