Relationship of lower extremity skin blood flow to the ankle brachial index in patients with peripheral arterial disease and normal volunteers

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-46

  Otah, Kenneth E ^a,b   Otah, Eseroghene ^a   Clark, Luther T ^a   Salifu, Moro O ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle brachial index, ABI; External pressure applied on ankle to induce VAR, PVAR; Peripheral arterial disease, PAD; Venoarteriolar response, VAR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; TIBIAL ARTERIES;

EID: 23044432741     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.08.043     Document Type: Article

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