title: Laser Doppler assessment of human colonic blood flow.
abstract: We have used laser Doppler flowmetry to assess human colonic blood flow in patients with healthy mucosa and in those with active proctitis. We report a significant correlation between colonic serosal laser Doppler flux readings and serosal tissue oxygen tension (n = 45: r = 0.671: p = 0.001). Mucosal blood flow was measured using the PF309 probe of a Perimed Pf2b set on 12 kHz frequency shift. There was no significant difference throughout the colon in healthy patients. The flow in rectal mucosa was significantly higher in patients with proctocolitis than in normal mucosa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakaguchi
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Hosie
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gourevitch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tudor
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hioki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Keighley
mesh_terms: D003106:Colon / Q000098:blood supply*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply*; D007834:Lasers; D011349:Proctitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D012007:Rectum / Q000098:blood supply; D012016:Reference Values; D012039:Regional Blood Flow