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Treadmill Testing for the Evaluation of Intermittent Claudication

The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 39 Issue 3-4 Page 65-69
published_at 1992-12
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Title
Treadmill Testing for the Evaluation of Intermittent Claudication
Creators Seyama Atsushi
Creators Furutani Akira
Creators Takenaka Hiroaki
Creators Kuga Takayuki
Creators Fujioka Kentaro
Creators Ohara Masaki
Creators Zempo Nobuya
Creators Esato Kensuke
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Creator Keywords
Intermittent claudication Lipo-PGE1 Treadmill Pain-free walking distance
The usefulness of treadmill testing to evaluate treatment efficacy for intermittent claudication objectively was studied in 20 patients who received an infusion of prostaglandin E1 incorporated in lipid microspheres (Lipo-PGE1 ,10μg/day) into a forearm vein daily for 7 consecutive days. The pain-free walking distance, maximum walking distance and ankle pressure index (API) were measured on a treadmill (3.0 km/hour, 5% slope) before and after the Lipo-PGE1 infusion. The pain-free walking distance increased from 72.5±41.4 m before therapy to 92.0±53.7 m 7 days after Lipo-PGE1 infusion (p<0.01). However, Lipo-PGE1 did not improve the API nor lengthen the tolerated maximum walking distance. Weconcluded that the measurement of the pain-free walking distance on a treadmill is useful in the objective evaluation of intermittent claudication.
Subjects
医学 ( Other)
Languages eng
Resource Type departmental bulletin paper
Publishers Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine
Date Issued 1992-12
File Version Version of Record
Access Rights open access
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[ISSN]0513-1812
[NCID]AA00594272
Schools 医学部