title: Skin surface oxygen pressure in healthy volunteers and patients with arterial occlusive disease.
abstract: When measuring transcutaneous oxygen pressure at an electrode core temperature of 37 degrees C autoregulating mechanisms of skin microcirculation can be studied. Because of poor reproducibility of a single PO2 measurement we determined skin surface oxygen pressure fields out of 50 or more PO2 values. At the forefeet and calves of healthy volunteers the histograms were slightly left-shifted with median PO2 of 4 mm Hg. Patients with multilevel arterial occlusive disease and low systolic ankle pressure presented with a disturbed PO2 distribution with very low PO2 values close to zero. About 16% of measurements were above 10 mm Hg. In contrast, diabetics had significantly higher PO2 (median 8 mm Hg) at the forefoot level when compared with healthy volunteers or patients without diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Angiology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Creutzig
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Caspary
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alexander
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000209:etiology; D001785:Blood Gas Monitoring, Transcutaneous; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood*; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply*; D012881:Skin Temperature
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen