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Intestinal tissue pH monitoring in microsurgery: an experimental study in rats
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kagawa Medical School, Japan.
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
We monitored the pH of ischemic intestine in rats to determine whether such measurements were a useful method of postoperative monitoring. Measurement of intestinal pH was found to be useful in detecting vascular occlusion, in distinguishing arterial from venous occlusion, and in estimating the time of occlusion. This method of monitoring can be recommended after free intestinal grafting.