title: Per-operative haemodynamic assessment of lower limb arterial surgery. Part 1: Hydraulic impedance measurement.
abstract: Hydraulic impedance measurements have been made during surgery on 32 patients undergoing reconstructive arterial surgery. The reconstructive procedures included aorto-iliac, femoro-popliteal and axillo-femoral bypass, and extended deep femoral angioplasty. It was found that in aorto-iliac reconstruction the phase curves provide the means of assessing success, but that in other cases the impedance measurements though showing a similar trend are unable unequivocally to differentiate between success or failure.
mesh_terms: D001158:Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003201:Computers; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D011379:Prognosis; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy