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

fYear

1988

fDate

4-7 Nov. 1988

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94675

Filename

94675