Chronic venous insufficiency of the lower limbs: Suitability of transcutaneous blood gas monitoring as an endpoint to evaluate the outcome of pharmacological treatment with calcium dobesilate

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 775-780

  Marinello, J ^a   Videla, S ^b   Villoria, Jesús ^c  

^a Mataro Hospital   (Spain)

^b Laboratorios Dr Esteve SA   (Spain)

^c PRA International   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcium dobesilate; Transcutaneous blood gas monitoring; Venous insufficiency

Indexed keywords

DOBESILATE CALCIUM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LEG VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXYGEN TENSION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; CALCIUM DOBESILATE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 13244298419     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2004.26.10.872559     Document Type: Article

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