BLOOD-FLOW PATTERNS IN PAINFUL DIABETIC NEUROPATHY
BLOOD-FLOW PATTERNS IN PAINFUL DIABETIC NEUROPATHY
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00276968
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
8.2
通讯作者:
WATKINS, PJ
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作者:
ARCHER, AG;ROBERTS, VC;WATKINS, PJ
Peripheral blood flow is qualitatively increased in diabetic patients with neuropathy. The actual blood flow in the feet of diabetic patients with neuropathy was measured using noninvasive mercury strain gauge plethysmography and Doppler sonogram techniques; it is increased on average 5 times above normal at an ambient temperature of 20.degree.-22.degree. C. Reduction of this high flow by sympathetic arousal stimuli proved possible in those with severe painful neuropathy contrasting strongly with failure to reverse it in those with severe nonpainful sensory neuropathy. Reduction of blood flow was associated with reduction in neuropathic pain. Twenty-two diabetic patients with severe sensory neuropathy and 8 with painful neuropathy were studied. High resting foot blood flows were demonstrated in both groups with neuropathy. The big toe flow in those with severe sensory neuropathy was 29.3 .+-. 9.2 ml .cntdot. min-1 .cntdot. 100 ml-1 (mean .+-. SD) and in the painful neuropathy group, 25.9 .+-. 7.5, compared with 5.2 .+-. 2.4 ml .cntdot. min-1 .cntdot. 100 ml-1 in the nondiabetic control subjects (P < 0.001). High foot skin temperatures also were recorded in the groups with neuropathy, reflecting the high blood flow. The subjects with painful neuropathy retained the ability to constrict peripheral blood vessels in response to arousal stimuli, and reduce peripheral flow on average by 32% compared with the patients with sensory neuropathy who responded on average by only 10%. The demonstration of a peripheral sympathetic defect, responsible for the high blood flow and the potential reversal of such flow in painful neuropathy may be important in the further understanding of the etiology of such pain and its treatment.