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Arterial flow in venous volume studies.

E C Peirce, H Schanzer

    The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, New York
    |January 1, 1989
    PubMed
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    Accurately assessing chronic venous regurgitation requires accounting for arterial blood flow. Correcting foot volume data for arterial flow significantly improves the precision of venous regurgitation measurements.

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    Area of Science:

    • Vascular Medicine
    • Physiology
    • Medical Diagnostics

    Background:

    • Venous refilling rate post-exercise is a standard noninvasive method for assessing chronic venous regurgitation.
    • Volume refilling measurements combine venous regurgitation and arterial blood flow, potentially introducing inaccuracies.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To test the hypothesis that volume data alone do not accurately measure venous regurgitation without knowing arterial blood flow.
    • To evaluate the impact of arterial flow on the accuracy of venous refilling time measurements.

    Main Methods:

    • Foot volume data were collected using a mercury-in-silastic strain gauge from 68 control subjects and 131 individuals with venous disease.
    • Time of half-volume refilling was measured and compared with values corrected for concurrent arterial blood flow.

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    Main Results:

    • Arterial blood flow constituted approximately half of the measured volume change, exhibiting considerable and unpredictable variability.
    • Corrected times of half-volume refilling demonstrated significantly reduced variations.
    • The estimation of venous regurgitation was substantially improved (p < 0.001) after correcting for arterial flow.

    Conclusions:

    • Volume refilling data must be corrected for arterial blood flow to accurately assess venous regurgitation.
    • Determining arterial flow is essential for reproducible and comparable venous volume tests between patients and over time.