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Morphometric, Biochemical, And Raman Spectral Analyses Of Muscle Damage In Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease: Providing Objective Criteria For Diagnosis And Treatment Monitoring, Kim Cluff
Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects approximately 10 million Americans, is characterized by atherosclerosis of the non-coronary arteries. PAD produces a progressive accumulation of ischemic injury to the limbs that is reflected in a gradual worsening in the myofiber morphology and oxidative damage in the gastrocnemius muscle. In this study, we evaluated the hypothesis that quantitative morphological and biochemical parameters of gastrocnemius myofibers change in a consistent manner during the progression of PAD, provide an objective grading of muscle degeneration in the ischemic limb, and correlate to clinical stage of PAD. Myofiber morphometrics were determined precisely with mathematical equations that …