Title :
Assessment of the influence of peripheral neurocirculatory status immediately after a thermosulfurous bath in diabetic neuropathy
Author :
Mincu, I. ; Popa, Elena ; Ionescu-Tirgoviste, C. ; Pruna, S. ; Serbu, Lavinia ; Baican, Elena ; Simionescu, Mihaela
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Electrophysiol. & Biomed. Eng., Clinic of Diabetes, Nutrition & Metabolic Diseases, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
The authors record the microcirculator modifications as an indirect objective measure of sympathetic activation induced by a thermosulfurous bath. The noninvasive photoplethysmographic technique used permits a quantitative evaluation of microcirculation recording from toes or fingers. The resulting amplitudes of the characteristic waves, especially the proportional variation (increase) of the amplitude 15 minutes after the bath, as compared to the basal values in 17 diabetic patients (7 M; 10 F; mean age: 54.4+or-12 yr; duration of diabetes; 8+or-3 yr), showed an increase of 80+or-28%.<>
Keywords :
biorheology; biothermics; 54.4 yr; 8 yr; characteristic waves; diabetic neuropathy; fingers; noninvasive photoplethysmographic technique; peripheral neurocirculatory status; sympathetic activation; thermosulfurous bath; toes;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94675
