The main pathological condition in patients with impaired wound healing is diabetes mellitus. These patients have significantly low circulating nitric oxide (NO) levels because the stimulatory action of insulin on NO synthesis is absent. Additionally, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an inhibitor of NO synthase, is increased owing to the generation of oxidative stress. NO was thought to contribute to wound healing. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment is generally used in order to accelerate the healing of wounds. The aim of this study was to determine the changes in plasma procollagen type I and III N-terminal peptides (PINP and PIIINP), total nitrite/nitrate (NOx) and ADMA levels; and to evaluate their relation to healing during the HBO treatment of foot ulcers. Data obtained from 18 diabetic patients before and after the HBO therapy were compared statistically by the Wilcoxon test. NOx was increased in 11 and ADMA was decreased in 12 patients following HBO treatment. Both PINP (32.6±29.4 μg/l vs 44.3±33.4 μg/l) and PIIINP (6.97±3.01 μg/l vs 7.92±2.49 μg/l) were significantly increased (p<0.05). Progressive reductions were observed in wound areas, as assessed by the digital wound imaging. In 12 patients, wounds healed by 50 % or higher; whereas only two subjects had minimal improvements (15 % or less healing). The duration of diabetes correlated negatively with wound healing (r = -498, p<0.05). This study suggests that increased collagen synthesis is associated with wound healing during hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Nitric oxide generation may also contribute to the healing process., F. Gurdol ... [et al.]., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
Exposure to hyperbaric oxygen leads to increased amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are derived from various sources. After the discovery that ROS can function as signaling molecules, the idea of ROS being hazardous to biological tissues has been challenged. The aim of this study was to examine the changes in oxidative stress parameters in diabetics undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) due to foot ulcers. Twenty patients, who received HBOT for diabetic foot ulcers, were included in the study. Blood samples were taken before HBOT and 30 min after exit from the chamber, on the day of the first and the 15th HBOT sessions. They were used for the determinations of malondialdehyde (MDA), 8-isoprostane and advanced oxidation protein products (AOPPs). 8-Isoprostane and AOPP levels were not altered significantly after the first HBOT session, while both were increased on the fifteenth day (p<0.05). MDA was significantly increased only after the first HBOT session, and remained unchanged on the fifteenth day (within-day variations). Plasma AOPP levels were lowered significantly after fifteen consecutive HBOT sessions (between-day variations). Decreased AOPP levels suggest that increased oxygenation of tissues due to HBO therapy may activate some endogenous factors that prevent hazardous effects of the disease itself., F. Gürdöl, M. Cimşit, Y. Öner-İyidoğan, Ş. Körpinar, S. Yalçinkaya, H. Koçak., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
Transkutánne monitorovanie parciálneho tlaku tkanivového kyslíka (tcpO2) je jednoduchou neinvazívnou metódou, ktorá pomáha pri diagnóze chronických komplikácií diabetes mellitus. Primárne je metóda monitorovania tcpO2 určená na hodnotenie mikrocirkulácie. Vhodne umiestnená a fixovaná Clarkova sonda na povrchu kože nám dáva s veľkou presnosťou informáciu o parciálnom tlaku kyslíku na podklade polarografického princípu detekcie difundujúceho kyslíku z kapilárneho nutritívneho riečiska cez tkanivá do povrchových vrstiev kože. Funkcia mikrocirkulácie je ovplyvňovaná makrocirkuláciou, čo umožňuje metódu merania tcpO2 využiť v diagnostickom procese periférneho artériového obliterujúceho ochorenia alebo inej vaskulárnej patológie. Kombinácia tcpO2 a meranie perfúzneho tlaku kože technikou laserového Dopplerovho vyšetrenia nám dáva informáciu nielen o kapilárnom riečisku, ale aj o cievach, ktoré anatomicky predchádzajú kapiláry. Článok ponúka odporučenia na meranie a hodnotenie výsledkov tcpO2 a zahŕňa výsledky najnovších štúdií, ktoré sa zaoberajú možnosťami využitia monitorovania tcpO2 u pacienta s diabetes mellitus. Kľúčové slova: diabetická mikroangiopatia – diabetická neuropatia – nehojaci sa diabetický defekt – periférne artériové obliterujúce ochorenie – transkutánne monitorovanie tkanivového kyslíka, Monitoring of transcutaneous perfusion pressure of tissue oxygen (tcpO2) is a simple, non-invasive method performed in diagnostic process of chronic diabetic complications. Primary, tcpO2 is used as an indicator of microcirculatory function. Properly placed and fixed Clark electrode is able to detect with high accuracy partial oxygen pressure on the skin surface by polarographic system of dissolved oxygen from capillary bed through tissues to upper layers of the skin. The microcirculation function is influenced by macrocirculation, thus, tcpO2 is a suitable parameter in diagnosis of peripheral arterial obliterative disease or other vascular pathologies. Combination of tcpO2 monitoring and skin perfusion pressure by laser Doppler technique gives us information not only about nutritive capillary flow, but also about vessels which precede capillary bed. The article discusses current guidelines for measurement of tcpO2 and evaluation of the results. Also reviews the results of recent studies which are interested in the use of tcpO2 in diabetic patients., and David Baláž, Andrea Komorníková, Peter Sabaka, Ľudovít Gašpar, Andrej Dukát