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Red blood cell velocity in nailfold capillaries during hyperbaric oxygenation
A J van der Kleij1, H Vink, C P Henny
1Department of Surgery, University of Amsterdam & Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Microcirculatory hemodynamics of the skin during hyperbaric oxygenation were assessed by determination of nailfold capillary red blood cell velocity (Vrbc). Under hyperbaric conditions a continuous increase in Vrbc was found. Control values, 0.43 +/- 0.12 mm. sec-1 (mean +/- sem), were significantly (P < 0.05) lower compared with Vrbc at the end of hyperbaric oxygenation (0.62 +/- 0.16 mm.sec-1).