The study of the dynamics of oxygen and carbon dioxide transcutaneous tension for re-tunnelization procedures in patients with obliterating atherosclerosis of the lower limbs

The study of the effect of repeated lower limb bone tunnelization procedures on the changes in oxygen and carbon dioxide transcutaneous tension has been performed in 26 patients with lower limb obliterating atherosclerosis with 2B Stage peripheral circulation insufficiency. Re-tunnelization procedures in such patients have been determined to contribute to tissue respiration normalization: the increase of oxygen transcutaneous tension and the tendency towards carbon dioxide decrease, that is accompanied by the improvement of patients clinical and functional condition. In most cases the changes in oxygen transosseous tension coincided with the dynamics of the malleolar-and-shoulder index.