EFFECT OF CHRONIC SMOKING ON DIGITAL BLOOD-FLOW - A PRELIMINARY-REPORT

Authors
SANTOSH V BHATNAGAR BNS GAUTAM A REDDY LP RAI UC
Citation
V. Santosh et al., EFFECT OF CHRONIC SMOKING ON DIGITAL BLOOD-FLOW - A PRELIMINARY-REPORT, Vascular surgery, 28(2), 1994, pp. 123-127
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Vascular surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00422835
Volume
28
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
123 - 127
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-2835(1994)28:2<123:EOCSOD>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A study of digital blood flow was carried out using a ''mercury-in-sil astic'' strain gauge in 50 individuals. Forty heavy smokers (25 asympt omatic chronic heavy smokers and 15 smokers with overt thromboangiitis obliterans-TAO) were studied. Ten individuals who had never smoked se rved as controls. Chronic heavy, long-term smoking causes significant reduction in digital blood flow. A further reduction occurs in those w ith overt symptoms of TAO. Monitoring of digital blood flow could prov ide a good screening test for determining the status of peripheral blo od flow in chronic smokers.