title: [Reflection spectrophotometry determination of cutaneous hemoglobin saturation in patients arterial occlusive diseases].
abstract: By a spectrophotometrical method, the oxygenation and relative concentration of hemoglobin in the skin of the forefoot was determined in 40 patients with advanced peripheral arterial occlusive disease. While the Hb-saturation at rest was hardly different from normals, leg elevation provoked a marked decrease of both parameters, especially in patients with critical ischemia. In these patients, reactive hyperemia was markedly delayed and impaired. External heat application failed to cause a hyperemic saturation increase in 14 patients and produced a decrease in 8 patients, 6 of whom experienced an infavourable clinical outcome. The method seems specially suited to assess states of severe ischemia.
authors.affiliation: Abt. Angiologie, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Caspary
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thum
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pietzsch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Creutzig
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alexander
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply; D006452:Hemoglobinometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow / Q000502:physiology; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply*; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen
vernacular_title: Reflexions-spektrophotometrische Bestimmung der kutanen Hämoglobin-Sättigung bei AVK-Patienten.