Near-Infrared Spectroscopy with Vascular Occlusion Test May Not Be the Adequate Tool to Explore Microcirculation in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Dimopoulos

, Tzanis

, Manetos

, Tasoulis

, Mpouchla

, Tseliou

, et al. Peripheral muscle microcirculatory alterations in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a pilot study. Respir Care, 2013; 58(12):2134-2141.

Hogan

, Ward

, Kontos

, Thacker

, Pittman

. Peripheral tissue oxygenation improves during ED treatment of acute heart failure. Am J Emerg Med, 2012; 30(1):196-202.

Schumacker

, Chandel

, Agusti

. Oxygen conformance of cellular respiration in hepatocytes. Am J Physiol, 1993; 265(4 Pt 1):L395-L402.

Creteur

, Carollo

, Soldati

, Buchele

, De Backer

, Vincent

. The prognostic value of muscle S_tO₂ in septic patients. Intensive Care Med, 2007; 33(9):1549-1556.

Vellinga

, Ince

, Boerma

. Elevated central venous pressure is associated with impairment of microcirculatory blood flow in sepsis: a hypothesis generating post hoc analysis. BMC Anesthesiol, 2013; 13(1):17.