title: Impaired hyperemic response of brachial artery with the presence of diabetes mellitus in patients with coronary artery disease: a preliminary study.
abstract: Microvascular reactivity was assessed in reactive hyperemic response of brachial artery in 10 patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 34 non-diabetic patients. Each subject was diagnosed clinically as having angina pectoris and was examined by coronary angiography. Brachial arterial flow was determined by a pulsed Doppler velocity measurement, guided by a high-resolution B-mode imaging of the forearm. Peak systolic velocity at the basal state in diabetic and non-diabetic patients was comparable (0.53 +/- 0.03 versus 0.61 +/- 0.04 m/s, respectively; P = NS). The velocity ratio of the peak systolic flow at the basal state to the maximum velocity during hyperemia of 2 min arterial occlusion tended to be less in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients (1.76 +/- 0.14 versus 2.15 +/- 0.13, respectively; P = NS). The duration of hyperemic flow was less in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients (6.7 +/- 0.7 versus 9.9 +/- 0.6 s, respectively; P < 0.02). Such alterations in reactive hyperemia may be relevant to the microvascular disorder of the peripheral vessel in the presence of diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tomoike
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shiga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hirono
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kubota
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001810:Blood Volume; D001916:Brachial Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012212:Rheology; D014463:Ultrasonography