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Bacterial Infection and Peripheral Vascular Disease

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Michele Mercuri

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Graziana Lupattelli

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Adriana Maccari

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Rita Lombardini

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Leonella Pasqualini

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Christian Ott

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Elmo Mannarino

2nd Department of Internal Medicine and the Angiology Section. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Whole blood filterability was monitored in 16 nondiabetic peripheral vascular disease (PVD) patients within forty-eight hours of onset of bacterial infection, after ten to seventeen days antibiotic therapy and again, ten days later, after convalescence. The whole blood filterability rate was constantly disturbed before infection in these patients; the impairment worsened significantly (as was expected during infection), but after convalescence the whole blood filterability rate did not return to preinfection levels. This further significant impairment in whole blood filterability was inversely correlated with a reduction in the patients' pain-free walking time as determined by a standard treadmell test performed after convalescence and compared with their average times before infection.

Angiology, Vol. 42, No. 5, 404-407 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979104200508


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