Digital pressure with laser Doppler flowmetry is better than photoplethysmography to characterize peripheral arterial disease of the upper limbs in end-stage renal disease patients
Microvascular Research, ISSN: 0026-2862, Vol: 139, Page: 104264
2022
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Article Description
There is no consensual definition of significant peripheral arterial disease of the upper limbs. Patients with end-stage renal disease are usually explored with Doppler ultrasound, which seems insufficient to characterize and quantify the arterial disease in this anatomic site. Candidates for haemodialysis access tend to be increasingly older and have polyvascular disease, and a better assessment of the vascular status of their upper limbs with finger systolic blood pressure is necessary. Photoplethysmography is simple and currently used in practice, but laser Doppler flowmetry may be more sensitive for low values. Our objective is to investigate additional information in the digit assessment over the ultrasound assessment of the upper limbs of patients awaiting haemodialysis and compare digital pressure values taken by photoplethysmography and laser Doppler. All included patients with end-stage renal disease scheduled for haemodialysis access received a prospective evaluation of their upper limbs with a clinical examination of the hands, an arterial upper limb Doppler ultrasound, and finger systolic blood pressure using photoplethysmography and laser Doppler flowmetry. Significant upper limb arterial disease was defined by a finger systolic blood pressure below 60 mm Hg or a finger brachial pressure index below 0.7. Twenty-four patients were included in the study. In all, 41.7% of patients (n = 10) had parietal calcifications to the antebrachial arteries on Doppler ultrasound, 8.3% of patients (n = 2) had bilateral finger systolic blood pressure values below 60 mm Hg with laser Doppler flowmetry (but not confirmed with photoplethysmography), and 16.6% of patients (n = 4) had a finger brachial pressure index below 0.7 on both laser Doppler flowmetry and photoplethysmography. While there was an agreement between these two methods, higher values were recorded with photoplethysmography. The Pearson coefficient was 0.493 for the median of basal digital pressures in absolute values and 0.489 for finger brachial pressure index (p < 0.001). Our study confirms the need to evaluate significant upper limb arterial disease in patients with end-stage renal disease not only with Doppler ultrasound but also with an evaluation of the finger systolic blood pressure. The correlation of the finger systolic blood pressure values using laser Doppler flowmetry and photoplethysmography was poor, which was probably due to an overestimation of the pressures with photoplethysmography. Despite the absence of a gold standard, we suggest that Laser Doppler flowmetry should be used rather than photoplethysmography to better characterize significant peripheral arterial disease of the upper limbs in patients with end-stage renal disease, particularly before creation of a new haemodialysis access. Protocol Record on clinical trial 38RC19.285.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026286221001345; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mvr.2021.104264; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85117070037&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34653520; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0026286221001345; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mvr.2021.104264
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