Modifications of transcutaneous oxygen tension in lower limb peripheral arterial occlusive disease patients treated...

The current noninvasive techniques for investigating the response to epidural spinal cord stimulation in peripheral arterial occlusive disease patients are far from optimal. Transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements in these patients treated with spinal cord stimulation demonstrated a statistically significant increase during the stimulation and 30 min after the pacemaker has been switched off, suggesting the effectiveness of the spinal cord stimulation on cutaneous oxygenation. The transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements would represent in the future a reliable parameter to predict the effect and to modulate the pacemaker setting in peripheral arterial occlusive disease patients.