Heel-skin microvascular blood perfusion responses to sustained pressure loading and unloading

Microcirculation

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 227-233

  Mayrovitz, Harvey N ^a,c   Smith, Joshua ^b  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida Heart Research Institute   (United States)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow deprivation; Heel pressure; Perfusion depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HEEL; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HEEL; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE; SKIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0032239546     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/mic.5.2-3.227.233     Document Type: Article

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