Microcirculation and Diabetic Foot

• 12 May 2006
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 41-50
• https://doi.org/10.1002/0470029374.ch4

Abstract

Keywords

• MICROVASCULAR DISEASE IN FOOT ULCERATION
• SMALL VESSEL DISEASE
• MICROCIRCULATION AND DIABETIC FOOT
• HAEMODYNAMIC HYPOTHESIS
• IMPAIRED MICROVASCULAR RESPONSE IN DIABETES
• INCREASED RESTING BLOOD FLOW AND ‘CAPILLARY STEAL’
• SYMPATHETIC VASOCONSTRICTIVE REFLEXES
• MICROVASCULAR DEFECT AND FOOT ULCERATION
• WOUND HEALING IN DIABETES
• MICROVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES AND DIABETES