Getting the most from venous occlusion plethysmography: proposed methods for the analysis of data with a rest/exercise protocol

Extreme Physiology & Medicine

Edward Gilbert-Kawai²  Martin Feelisch¹  Daniel Martin²  Thomas Davies²  Stephen Wythe³ 

[1] Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Mailpoint 810, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK;University College London Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, UCLH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Sport and Exercise Health, 170 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7HA, UK;TamesAide General Hospital, Fountain Street, Ashton-U-Lyne OL6 9RW, Greater Manchester, UK

关键词: Methodology;    Regional blood flow;    Cell hypoxia;    Plethysmography;   

Others  :  1215928
DOI  :  10.1186/s13728-015-0027-8

 received in 2015-01-23, accepted in 2015-06-02,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Venous occlusion plethysmography is a simple yet powerful technique for the non-invasive measurement of blood flow. It has been used extensively in both the experimental and clinical settings. The underlying rationale is that when venous outflow from an extremity is occluded, any immediate increase in volume of this compartment must originate from the on-going arterial inflow. Mercury-in-silastic strain gauges are typically used to measure these volume changes, the rates of which are directly proportional to blood flow.

Results

When using a simple rest/exercise protocol to provide a local or systemic metabolic stimulus to increase blood flow, current methods for analysing the data obtained are often rather simplistic, solely considering the mean increment in blood flow induced by exercise. Previous methodological considerations have focused mainly on issues of reproducibility and accuracy (for instance, by comparing unilateral and/or bilateral measurements) but rarely on what the recorded traces may actually mean.

Conclusions

In this methodological manuscript, we suggest a more detailed approach to processing venous occlusion plethysmography data, one which could provide additional physiological information. Six parameters are described, all of which are easily derived from a simple and reproducible experimental rest/exercise venous occlusion plethysmography protocol.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Wythe et al.

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