The Journal of Japan Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine
Online ISSN : 1881-1639
Print ISSN : 0288-6200
ISSN-L : 0288-6200
TOPICAL ARTICLE: Laser Application in the Field of Cardiovascular Diseases
The Observation of Body Surface Circulatory Dynamics Using LASER Speckle Flow Meter in the Thoracic Sympathectomy
Hidehiro Yamamoto
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2014 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 180-186

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The sympathetic nerve has vaso-motor action to give tension for the vascular smooth muscle of the very small artery. This contributes to blood pressure regulation and has a major role on a life support autonomously.However, the details are unknown which regional vaso-motor action each sympathetic nerve controls. We applied LASER Speckle Flow Meter (we abbreviate it to LSFG as follows) to thoracic sympathectomy of the local hidrosis patient and observed a change of the face / cervical part / in front of skin of chest blood flow, and we added some discussion.
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