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Background:
To evaluate the quality of life of surgically treated patients for TOS.
Methods:
A prospective observational study including patients treated surgically for TOS, on 2018. Two standardized questionnaires: Disability of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and the Short-Form 12 (SF-12) were used. The SF-12 consists of a phy...
Objective
It was hypothesised that there is a linear relationship between the severity of exercise induced calf ischaemia and the prevalence of calf claudication on a treadmill until a plateau is reached. It was expected that no pain would be present in the absence of ischaemia and all severely ischaemic calves would be symptomatic.
Methods
This w...
Objective
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) should be considered of arterial origin only if patients have clinical symptoms that are the result of documented symptomatic ischemia. Simultaneous recording of inflow impairment and forearm ischemia in patients with suspected TOS has never been reported to date. We hypothesized that ischemia would occur in...
Determination of the self-reported walking capacity by interview or standardized questionnaire is important. However, the existing questionnaires require the patient to be able to read and write in a specific language. We recently proposed the WELSH (Walking Estimated Limitation Stated by History) tool to be administrable to illiterate people. The...
Background
Cardiac surgery is known to induce acute endothelial dysfunction, which may be central to the pathophysiology of postoperative complications. Preoperative endothelial dysfunction could also be implicated in the pathophysiology of postoperative complications after cardiac surgery. However, the relationship between preoperative endothelial...
Objective: Fingertip photoplethysmography (PPG) resulting from high-pass filtered raw PPG signal is often used to record arterial pulse changes in patients with suspected thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS). Results from venous (low-pass filtered raw signal) forearm PPG (V-PPG) during the Candlestick-Prayer (Ca + Pra) maneuver were recently classified i...
Aim: A better knowledge of the biological consequences in the blood of these exercise-induced ischemic events in lower extremity artery disease (LEAD) may improve the prospects of disease management. We explored the preminus postexercise metabolomic difference in 39 patients with LEAD referred for a treadmill oximetry test [transcutaneous oximetry...
Purpose:
This study investigated the correlations of hemodynamic parameters measured to quantify stenosis between the gold-standard duplex ultrasonography and the dual-gate Doppler mode.
Methods:
Patients examined due to suspicion of carotid artery stenosis or for surveillance of known stenosis were invited to participate in this prospective sin...
PurposeMany tasks, sports or leisure activities require maximal knee flexion. We hypothesized that this position could result in reduced calf perfusion, in young European subjects.Methods
We quantified calf ischemia resulting from the knee flexion with transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcpO2) sensors by assessing the decrease from rest of TcpO2 (DROP...
Hypertension is associated with excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in vascular cells. Mitochondria undergo fusion and fission, a process playing a role in mitochondrial function. OPA1 is essential for mitochondrial fusion. Loss of OPA1 is associated with ROS production and cell dysfunction. We hypothesized that mitochondria fusion c...
The level of pulse amplitude (PA) change in arterial digital pulse plethysmography (A-PPG) that should be used to diagnose thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is debated. We hypothesized that a modification of the Roos test (by moving the arms forward, mimicking a prayer position (“Pra”)) releasing an eventual compression that occurs in the surrender/ca...
Objective: Hemodynamic investigations in thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) remain difficult, even in trained hands. Results are generally reported as either presence or absence of venous compression. In fact, in patients with suspected TOS but without chronic venous occlusion, the forearm volume changes may result from various combinations of forearm...
The ways in which locations of ischemia and ischemic pain affect spatiotemporal gait parameters and leg electromyographic activity during walking have never been investigated in patients with peripheral arterial disease presenting intermittent claudication. Two groups were classified according to unilateral location of ischemia (distal, n = 10, or...
Background
We seek to evaluate whether ischemia extent (unilateral or bilateral) impacts spatiotemporal and neuromuscular gait parameters differently in patients with peripheral arterial disease and presenting intermittent claudication (PAD‐IC).
Methods
Two groups of PAD‐IC patients: unilateral (Unilat‐IC; n=15), bilateral (Bilat‐IC; n=15) and a g...
Background and aims
Transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcpO2) is used in patients with suspected critical limb ischemia (CLI). Sinusoidal changes (SC~) in TcpO2 are found in patients with Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR). We aimed to determine the characteristics of TcpO2 changes at rest in patients with suspected CLI, define the objective criteria for...
Background
Previous studies in patients with arterial claudication have focused on calf hemodynamic recovery. We hypothesized that the duration of hemodynamic recovery with TcpO2 at calf and non-calf levels would be shorter than 10 min. We analyzed the factors that influence the recovery time.
Methods
We monitored limb changes minus chest changes...
Background and aims
Calf pain is the most frequent symptom of arterial claudication. We hypothesized that patients with self-reported isolated calf claudication have frequent exertional non-calf symptoms during objective laboratory testing, and that many would show not only distal, but also proximal ischemia.
Methods
We retrospectively analyzed th...
Background
In patients with peripheral arterial disease and presenting intermittent claudication (PAD-IC), the pain due to ischemia impacts gait parameters, particularly in cases of unilateral disease. Deterioration of gait parameters in a pathological context is frequently associated with increased coactivation (simultaneous activation of agonist...
Background
Galvanic current-induced vasodilation (CIV) is impaired in patients under low-dose aspirin (ASA; ≤ 500 mg/day), but potential covariates and the impact of the time since the last ASA intake are unknown.
Objectives
We used tissue viability imaging (TiVi) in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease and examined its association with self...
Intermittent Claudication due to Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD-IC) induces ischemic pain in exercising muscles, and therefore impaired gait. In a pathological context, the analysis of the Vertical component of Ground Reaction Force (VGRF) is frequently used to describe gait pattern. This paper aims to define gait profiles according to the relati...
Rationale: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of interrelated risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and atherosclerosis. Circulating levels of large extracellular vesicles (lEVs), submicrometer-sized vesicles released from plasma membrane, from MetS patients were shown to induce endothelial dysfunction but their role in early stage of athero...
Background:
Epidemiological, imaging, and anatomical studies suggest an association between proximal arterial atherosclerosis and development of low back pain (LBP).
Objectives:
We aimed to define (1) the frequency and (2) factors associated with exercise-induced proximal ischemia (EIPI) in individuals with LBP and (3) develop a clinical screeni...
Background:
As hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) represents a frequent cause of preventable deaths in medical inpatients, identifying at risk patients requiring thromboprophylaxis is critical. We aimed to externally assess the Caprini, IMPROVE and Padua VTE risk scores and to compare their performance to advanced age as a stand-alone...
Transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcpO2) measurement has been used for years at rest in patients with lower extremity artery disease. It was proposed for exercise testing (Ex-TcpO2) in the 80ies to evaluate regional blood flow impairment (RBFI) at the proximal and distal levels simultaneously and on both sides, in case of claudication. It was suggest...
Aim:
To compare the transcutaneous oxygen pressure results observed in patients with severe walking limitation during standard procedures (3.2 km/h, 10% slope) versus during a test performed at a low speed (2 km/h, 10% slope).
Methods:
In 31 patients the decrease from rest of oxygen pressure (DROP) index was measured on both buttocks, both thigh...
To study the concordance of exercise-oximetry and of ankle-brachial pressure index (ABI) and ankle pressure (AP) at rest, and after exercise, in patients complaining of vascular-type claudication to diagnose lower extremity artery disease (LEAD). Treadmill test in 433 patients with exercise-oximetry included constant load (3.2 km/h, 10% slope) phas...
Objectives:
Ambient temperature (that impacts differently venous flow in superficial and deep veins) could have a different effect on the risk of superficial and deep venous thrombosis. We searched for a trimestral variation of the risk of superficial venous thrombosis among all lower-limb thrombotic events (lower-limb thrombotic events = superfic...
Background:
Non-invasive tests are still required to improve the holistic diagnostic approach of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).
Objectives:
We aimed to analyze the diagnostic accuracy of the decrease from rest oxygen pressure (DROP) index of transcutaneous oximetry (TcpO2) in TOS.
Methods:
Seventy-six patients and 40 asymptomatic volunteers (...
Background:
The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is increasing in low-income countries. Various questionnaires to estimate walking capacity in patients are available in multiple languages but they are not suitable for illiterate patients.
Objective:
The walking estimated limitation stated by history (WELSH) tool aims at rating individual wa...
Objective:
To determine if using a telephone can induce forearm pain and ischemia.
Design:
Prospective case-control trial.
Setting:
Vascular laboratory in the university hospital in Angers between September 2018 and March 2019.
Participants:
Fifteen apparently healthy subjects (controls) and 32 patients with suspected thoracic outlet syndrom...
Objective:
Learning basic vascular examination is a complex process. Very few studies have focused on the ability to measure the arterial systolic blood pressure at the ankle (ASBPa). The aim of this study was to objectively assess the effects of a 1-h practical educational intervention on the ability to measure ASBPa among medical students.
Meth...
Background
In case of acute thrombosis, lower limb bypasses can, in certain cases, be cleared by local intra-arterial fibrinolysis (LIF). The aim of this study is to evaluate the secondary patency of thrombosed bypasses after fibrinolysis.
Methods
This retrospective study includes all patients hospitalized for thrombosed bypasses of the lower limb...
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are considered as highly effective and relatively safe drugs for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. If several side effects on short and long term are well known and described, their involvement in the development of carotid stenosis remains unclear. Here, we describe a case of carotid stenosis in a patient receiv...
Purpose:
To determine any difference between bare metal stents (BMS) and balloon-expandable covered stents in the treatment of innominate artery atheromatous lesions.
Materials and methods:
A multicenter retrospective study involving 13 university hospitals in France collected 93 patients (mean age 63.2±11.1 years; 57 men) treated over a 10-year...
Objective:
Determining the maximum walking time (MWT) using the treadmill test is the gold standard method for evaluating walking capacity and treatment effect in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). However, self reported functional disability is important when assessing quality of life. Changes in the Walking Estimated Limitation Cal...
Introduction
Le Nilotinib est un inhibiteur de tyrosine kinase (ITK) de seconde génération et constitue un des traitements majeurs de la leucémie myéloïde chronique (LMC). Ses effets indésirables à court terme ont été bien étudiés mais de nombreuses interrogations persistent sur le long terme.
Suite à différentes études montrant le rôle de ce trait...
Purpose:
To investigate the prevalence and location of optic nerve head drusen and their potential association with other PXE-related ophthalmic abnormalities.
Materials and methods:
Thirty-eight of the 155 patients (57 male and 98 female aged 49±17 years) included in this retrospective study had optic nerve head drusen. All of the patients unde...
Background: Exercise oximetry allows operator-independent recordings of microvascular blood flow impairments during exercise and can be used during upper arm provocative maneuvers.
Objective: To study the test-retest reliability of upper-limb oximetry during the Roos test in patients with suspected thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).
Materials and Meth...
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a problem worldwide, and prevention is crucial. We hypothesized that the inability of the skin to respond to pressure is involved in DFU pathogenesis and could be an important predictive factor to take into account. We included 29 patients with DFU and 30 patients with type 2 diabetes without DFU. Neuropathy and skin bl...
Background
The prevalence of exercise-induced ischemia in the asymptomatic limb of patients with unilateral claudication based on history and treadmill evaluation, and with unilateral ipsilateral peripheral artery disease (i.e ankle-to-brachial systolic pressure index <0.90) is unknown.
Methods
We detected exercise-induced ischemia in the asymptom...
Objectives:
Mechanisms of walking limitation in arterial claudication are incompletely elucidated. We aimed to identify new variables associated to walking limitation in patients with claudication.
Methods:
We retrospectively analyzed data of 1120 patients referred for transcutaneous exercise oxygen pressure recordings (TcpO2). The outcome measu...
Background: Forearm cutaneous blood flux (CBF) measurement with post-occlusive reactive hyperemia (PORH) is uncomfortable and may not be devoid of risks. We aimed to investigate post-compression reactive hyperemia (PCRH) with a custom-made indenter that was designed to be easily used routinely by inexperienced observers. Methods: Medical students e...
Objectives
Vitamin D affects multiple body functions through the regulation of gene expression. In sports medicine, its influence on musculoskeletal health and performance is of particular interest. Vitamin D insufficiency might decrease athletic performance and increase the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. Several studies have demonstrated vitami...
We thank Stivalet et al. for their letter about our manuscript studying ankle pressure and ankle brachial index (ABI) after incremental heavy load exercise. The detailed description of procedures and populations of the previous studies are of interest and correct but the suggestion that we calmed that the “American Heart Association (AHA) criteria...
We read with interest the recent article by Vriens et al. published in Diabetic Medicine [1]. The authors question the screening tools used to test for the presence of peripheral artery disease in people with diabetic foot ulcers. This is important because the complications of diabetes limit all commonly used, non‐invasive, bedside tests for periph...
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a genetic multisystem disorder with cutaneous, ophthalmological and cardiovascular (CV) involvement1, 2, 3. Having the capacity to predict the natural progression of PXE within various systems would improve preventive care in those patients at elevated risk of CV or ophthalmological complications. Yet, the means re...
Purpose:
To study the prevalence of fundus anomalies among patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum as a function of their age.
Material and methods:
All patients have had a complete ophthalmologic examination in multidisciplinary consultation for PXE in a national reference center.
Results:
Hundred and fifty-eight patients (60 men and 98 women...
Exertional lower limb pain is a frequent diagnostic issue in elderly patients. Arterial claudication results from the mismatch between the oxygen requirement of, and oxygen delivery to the exercising muscles. Non-invasive vascular investigations (ultrasound imaging, plethysmography or segmental pressure) are used in routine at rest or following exe...
The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between the severity of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and liver stiffness measurement (LSM), one of the most accurate noninvasive screening tools for liver fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
The study included 147 patients with at least one criterion for the metabolic syndrome, asses...
Introduction
The American Heart Association (AHA) recommendations for diagnosing peripheral artery disease (PAD) after exercise are a decrease > 20% of ankle brachial index (ABI) or > 30 mmHg of ankle systolic blood pressure (ASBP) from resting values. We evaluated ABI and ASBP values during incremental maximal exercise in physically active and asy...
Objective:
This study aims to compare the structural and mitochondrial alterations between muscle segments affected by exercise-induced ischemia and segments of the same muscle without ischemia, in the same subject.
Methods:
In a prospective analysis, 34 patients presenting either peripheral arterial disease or chronic coronary syndrome without...
A recent report in the journal evaluated microvascular response at the facial and peripheral level during various types and levels of emotional stresses with laser speckle contrast imaging. Our short letter aims at underlying the importance of artifact removal in this situation and suggest directions for improving the results of this kind of experi...
Introduction
The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of interrelated risk factors for cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis including hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, hypertension and obesity. We have previously shown that circulating levels of microparticles (MPs), small vesicles released from plasma membrane, from MetS patients induce endothe...
Background:
Endothelial dysfunction, a pathophysiologic determinant of atherogenesis, has been found to occur in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) and is improved by continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). However, the efficacy of CPAP therapy is limited by variable adherence. Alternative treatment strategies are needed. The impact of pol...
Background:
In diabetic patients, arterial stiffness may impair compressibility of vessels and result in higher ankle to brachial index (ABI) than in non-diabetic subjects.
Methods:
We studied 1972 non-diabetic and 601 diabetic patients, with suspected peripheral artery disease, Exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressure (Ex-tcpO2), expressed in DR...