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Effect of local blood flow in thermal regulation in diabetic patient
A Bandini1, S Orlandi, C Manfredi
1Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Abstract:
The presence of dysautonomia in diabetic neuropathy is correlated with impairment of vasomotor activity that drives blood microcirculation. Microcirculation, in turn, plays an important role in thermoregulation. In this work, we investigate the changes between two different physiological conditions of diabetic patients, induced by FREMS application, in the control of skin temperature, using a minimally invasive experiment. Skin is warmed up to a fixed temperature (44 °C) for a few minutes, then the heat source is turned off, letting the skin recover its physiological temperature. Both temperature and local blood flow, the latter measured with laser Doppler, are monitored during the experiment. A simple model of the cooling phase is used to evaluate the time constants involved in the process. Results indicate that significant differences exist in the model parameters between the two conditions.
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