1. [Heat exchange and skin thermometry before and after lumbar sympathectomy].
- Author
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Polous IuM, Kushnir RIa, and Bulat LP
- Subjects
- Adult, Aged, Arteriosclerosis Obliterans surgery, Humans, Lumbosacral Region innervation, Male, Middle Aged, Postoperative Period, Arteriosclerosis Obliterans physiopathology, Body Temperature Regulation physiology, Leg blood supply, Skin Temperature physiology, Sympathectomy
- Abstract
The authors studied the flow of heat and skin temperature of the legs and feet in 73 patients with atherosclerosis obliterans before and after lumbar sympathectomy. A regularity was revealed according to which numerical determination of heat emission in combination with thermometry in characteristic points of the leg and foot was a good test in determining the stage of the disease and a prognostic index of the efficacy of lumbar sympathectomy and rehabilitation of the patient in the immediate and late-term postoperative period.
- Published
- 1990