A comparison of Doppler ankle pressures and skin perfusion pressure in subjects with and without diabetes.

摘要: Doppler ankle pressure measurements may be misleading in some patients because medial calcification has made the arteries of leg incompressible. This problem is especially common diabetics. Medical that not severe enough to make an artery clinically incompressible cause increased stiffness arterial wall will limit accuracy measurements. A comparison skin perfusion pressure, using isotope technique, and pressures was 226 subjects, diabetic non-diabetic. Patients with were excluded from study. The slopes regression lines relating non-diabetic subjects significantly different (P = 0.03). result consistent hypothesis have are less compressible than normal over whole range recorded.