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Ramondou P, Hersant J, Fouquet O, Sempore WY, Abraham P, Henni S. Current-Induced Vasodilation Specifically Detects, and Correlates With the Time Since, Last Aspirin Intake: An Interventional Study of 830 Patients. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther 2020; 26:269-278. [PMID: 33161777 DOI: 10.1177/1074248420971165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Galvanic current-induced vasodilation (CIV) is impaired in patients under low-dose aspirin (ASA; ≤ 500 mg/day), but potential covariates and the impact of the time since the last ASA intake are unknown. OBJECTIVES We used tissue viability imaging (TiVi) in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease and examined its association with self-reported treatments. PATIENTS/METHODS We recorded the age, gender, height, weight, smoking status, and use of 14 different drug categories in 822 patients either with known peripheral artery disease or at risk thereof. The difference between TiVi arbitrary units (TAUs) where stimulation was applied and an adjacent skin area was recorded, as well as the time since the last ASA intake. Step-by-step regression analysis was used to determine the factors that affect CIV amplitude. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS CIV was 28.2 ± 22.9 vs. 14.6 ± 18.0 TAUs (P < 0.001) in patients treated with ASA (n = 287) and not treated with ASA (n = 535), respectively. The main determinants of CIV amplitude, by order of importance, were: aspirin intake, diabetes mellitus, age, and male sex. In ASA-treated patients, the main determinants were diabetes mellitus, time since the last ASA intake, male gender, and age. Non-invasive determination of the physiological effects of low-dose ASA is feasible in routine clinical practice. It could be a clinical approach to provide objective evidence of ASA intake, and potentially could be used to test adherence to treatment in ASA-treated patients.
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- Pierre Ramondou
- Vascular Medicine, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Vascular Medicine, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
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- 551563Sports and Exercise Medicine, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France.,UMR CNRS 1083 INSERM 6015, LUNAM University, Angers, France.,Université Nazi Boni, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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- 551563Sports and Exercise Medicine, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France.,UMR CNRS 1083 INSERM 6015, LUNAM University, Angers, France
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- Vascular Medicine, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France.,UMR CNRS 1083 INSERM 6015, LUNAM University, Angers, France
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McRae KE, Pudwell J, Peterson N, Smith GN. Inhaled carbon monoxide increases vasodilation in the microvascular circulation. Microvasc Res 2019; 123:92-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2019.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Revised: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Abraham P, Hersant J, Bigou Y, Ammi M, Henni S. Gravity changes in transcutaneous oxygen pressure and cutaneous blood flow. Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2018; 59:207-209. [PMID: 30266322 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2018.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Pierre Abraham
- Vascular medicine, University Hospital, Angers, France; Mitovasc, UMR CNRS 6015/INSERM 1083, University of Angers, Angers, France.
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- Vascular medicine, University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Vascular surgery, University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Vascular medicine, University Hospital, Angers, France
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Henni S, Abraham P. Skin blood flow measurements during exposures to emotionally charged movies. J Physiol Sci 2018; 68:873-874. [PMID: 29691800 PMCID: PMC10717847 DOI: 10.1007/s12576-018-0616-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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A recent report in the journal evaluated microvascular response at the facial and peripheral level during various types and levels of emotional stresses with laser speckle contrast imaging. Our short letter aims at underlying the importance of artifact removal in this situation and suggest directions for improving the results of this kind of experiment.
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- Samir Henni
- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital, 49933, Angers Cedex 09, France
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- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital, 49933, Angers Cedex 09, France.
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Henni S, Ammi M, Abraham P. Use of Local Thermal Load for Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia. Ann Vasc Surg 2018; 49:319-320. [PMID: 29481942 DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2017.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Samir Henni
- Department of vascular medicine, University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Department of vascular medicine, University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Department of vascular medicine, University Hospital, Angers, France.
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Influence of two types of self-retaining retractors on multifidus muscle blood flow during dorso lateral thoracolumbar hemilaminectomy in dogs. Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 2017; 28:256-62. [DOI: 10.3415/vcot-15-01-0008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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SummaryObjectives: To assess the influence of the use of Gelpi and Grevel retractors on multifidus muscle blood flow during hemilaminectomy, using a dorsolateral approach, for acute disc extrusion in dogs as measured by laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI).Methods: Blood flow in the multifidus muscles was measured intra-operatively using LSCI prior to insertion of the retractors, immediately after hemilaminectomy and removal of the retractors, and after 10 minutes of lavage of the surgical site. Plasma creatine kinase levels were measured preoperatively and 12–24 hours postoperatively.Results: Muscular blood flow was significantly decreased following retraction and remained lower than initial values 10 minutes after lavage in all dogs. The decrease in blood flow was significantly greater with Gelpi re-tractors (n = 8) than with Grevel retractors (n = 10). No significant relation was found between the duration of retraction and postoperative changes in creatine kinase levels or blood flow.Clinical significance: Findings in this study demonstrate a drop in blood flow within the multifidus muscles using the dorsolateral approach regardless of retractor type used. Gelpi retractors seem to have greater influence on muscular blood flow than Grevel retractors. Further studies are warranted to confirm this second finding.
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Khalil A, Humeau-Heurtier A, Gascoin L, Abraham P, Mahé G. Aging effect on microcirculation: A multiscale entropy approach on laser speckle contrast images. Med Phys 2017; 43:4008. [PMID: 27370119 DOI: 10.1118/1.4953189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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PURPOSE It has long been known that age plays a crucial role in the deterioration of microvessels. The assessment of such deteriorations can be achieved by monitoring microvascular blood flow. Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a powerful optical imaging tool that provides two-dimensional information on microvascular blood flow. The technique has recently been commercialized, and hence, few works discuss the postacquisition processing of laser speckle contrast images recorded in vivo. By applying entropy-based complexity measures to LSCI time series, we present herein the first attempt to study the effect of aging on microcirculation by measuring the complexity of microvascular signals over multiple time scales. METHODS Forearm skin microvascular blood flow was studied with LSCI in 18 healthy subjects. The subjects were subdivided into two age groups: younger (20-30 years old, n = 9) and older (50-68 years old, n = 9). To estimate age-dependent changes in microvascular blood flow, we applied three entropy-based complexity algorithms to LSCI time series. RESULTS The application of entropy-based complexity algorithms to LSCI time series can differentiate younger from older groups: the data fluctuations in the younger group have a significantly higher complexity than those obtained from the older group. CONCLUSIONS The effect of aging on microcirculation can be estimated by using entropy-based complexity algorithms to LSCI time series.
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- A Khalil
- LARIS-Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, University of Angers, 62 Avenue Notre-Dame du Lac, Angers 49000, France
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- LARIS-Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, University of Angers, 62 Avenue Notre-Dame du Lac, Angers 49000, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie et d'Explorations Vasculaires, Hospital of Angers, University of Angers, Angers Cedex 01 49033, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie et d'Explorations Vasculaires, Hospital of Angers, University of Angers, UMR CNRS 6214-INSERM 1083, Angers Cedex 01 49033, France
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- Pôle Imagerie Médicale et Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hospital Pontchaillou of Rennes, University of Rennes 1, INSERM CIC 1414, Rennes Cedex 9 35033, France
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Colominas MA, Schlotthauer G, Etienne M, Martin L, Abraham P. Bidimensional unconstrained optimization approach to EMD: An algorithm revealing skin perfusion alterations in pseudoxanthoma elasticum patients. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2017; 140:233-239. [PMID: 28254079 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 12/26/2016] [Accepted: 12/28/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is an inherited and systemic metabolic disorder that affects the skin, leading among other things to a peau d'orange appearance. Unfortunately, PXE is still poorly understood and there is no existing therapy to treat the disease. Because the skin is the first organ to be affected in PXE, we propose herein a study of skin microvascular perfusion. By means of this analysis, our goal is to increase knowledge of PXE. METHODS For this purpose, microvascular data from patients suffering from PXE and from healthy control subjects were recorded using the laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) modality. These data were processed using the recent 2D version of the unconstrained optimization approach to empirical mode decomposition (UOA-EMD). Our work therefore corresponds to the first time this algorithm has been applied to biomedical data. RESULTS Our study shows that the 2D-UOA-EMD is able to reveal spatial patterns on local textures of LSCI data. Moreover, these spatial patterns differ between PXE patients and control subjects. Quantification measure of these spatial patterns reveals statistical significant differences between PXE and control subjects, in the neck (p=0.0004) and in the back (p=0.0052). CONCLUSIONS For the first time, alterations in microvascular perfusion in PXE patients have been revealed. Our findings open new avenues for our understanding of pathophysiologic skin changes in PXE.
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- Anne Humeau-Heurtier
- University of Angers, LARIS - Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, 62 avenue Notre-Dame du Lac, 49000 Angers, France.
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- Laboratorio de Señales y Dinámicas no Lineales,Facultad de Ingeniería, Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Señales y Dinámicas no Lineales,Facultad de Ingeniería, Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina; Centro de Investigación y Transferencia de Entre Ríos (CITER), Argentina
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- University of Angers, Angers Hospital, Department of Dermatology, UMR CNRS 6214-INSERM 1083, Angers, France
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- University of Angers, Angers Hospital, Department of Dermatology, UMR CNRS 6214-INSERM 1083, Angers, France
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- University of Angers, Angers Hospital, Laboratoire de Physiologie et d'Explorations Vasculaires, UMR CNRS 6214-INSERM 1083, Angers, France
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Khalil A, Humeau-Heurtier A, Mahé G, Abraham P. Laser speckle contrast imaging: age-related changes in microvascular blood flow and correlation with pulse-wave velocity in healthy subjects. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2015; 20:051010. [PMID: 25423123 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.20.5.051010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In the cardiovascular system, the macrocirculation and microcirculation—two subsystems—can be affected by aging. Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is an emerging noninvasive optical technique that allows the monitoring of microvascular function and can help, using specific data processing, to understand the relationship between the subsystems. Using LSCI, the goals of this study are: (i) to assess the aging effect over microvascular parameters (perfusion and moving blood cells velocity, MBCV) and macrocirculation parameters (pulse-wave velocity, PWV) and (ii) to study the relationship between these parameters. In 16 healthy subjects (20 to 62 years old), perfusion and MBCV computed from LSCI are studied in three physiological states: rest, vascular occlusion, and post-occlusive reactive hyperaemia (PORH). MBCV is computed from a model of velocity distribution. During PORH, the experimental results show a relationship between perfusion and age (R(2) = 0.67) and between MBCV and age (R(2) = 0.72), as well as between PWV and age at rest (R(2) = 0.91). A relationship is also found between perfusion and MBCV for all physiological states (R(2) = 0.98). Relationships between microcirculation and macrocirculation (perfusion-PWV or MBCV-PWV) are found only during PORH with R(2) = 0.76 and R(2) = 0.77, respectively. This approach may prove useful for investigating dysregulation in blood flow.
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- Adil Khalil
- University of Angers, LARIS-Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systémes, 62 Avenue Notre-Dame du Lac, 49000 Angers, France
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- University of Angers, LARIS-Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systémes, 62 Avenue Notre-Dame du Lac, 49000 Angers, France
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- Pôle Imagerie Médicale et Explorations Fonctionnelles, Inserm CIC 1414, Hospital Pontchaillou of Rennes, University of Rennes 1, 35033 Rennes Cedex 9, France
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- University of Angers, Hospital of Angers, Laboratoire de Physiologie et d'Explorations Vasculaires UMR CNRS 6214-INSERM 1083, 49033 Angers Cedex 01, France
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Abraham P, Mahe G. Analysis of laser speckle contrast images variability using a novel empirical mode decomposition: comparison of results with laser Doppler flowmetry signals variability. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2015; 34:618-627. [PMID: 25347875 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2014.2364079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) and laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) have emerged as noninvasive optical modalities to monitor microvascular blood flow. Many studies proposed to extract physiological information from LDF by analyzing signals variability. By opposition, such analyses for LSCI data have not been conducted yet. We propose to analyze LSCI variability using a novel data-driven method: the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN). CEEMDAN is suitable for nonlinear and nonstationary data and leads to intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). It is based on the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) which relies on empirical mode decomposition (EMD). In our work the average frequencies of LSCI IMFs given by CEEMDAN are compared with the ones given by EMD and EEMD. Moreover, LDF signals acquired simultaneously to LSCI data are also processed with CEEMDAN, EMD and EEMD. We show that the average frequencies of IMFs given by CEEMDAN depend on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) used in the computation but, for a given SNR, the average frequencies found for LSCI are close to the ones obtained for LDF. By opposition, EEMD leads to IMFs with frequencies that do not vary much when the SNR level is higher than a threshold. The new CEEMDAN algorithm has the advantage of achieving a complete decomposition with no error in the reconstruction but our study suggests that further work is needed to gain knowledge in the adjustment of the added noise level. CEEMDAN, EMD and EEMD are data-driven methods that can provide a better knowledge of LSCI.
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Omarjee L, Signolet I, Humeau-Heutier A, Martin L, Henrion D, Abraham P. Optimisation of movement detection and artifact removal during laser speckle contrast imaging. Microvasc Res 2015; 97:75-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2014.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Revised: 09/16/2014] [Accepted: 09/17/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Marche P, Dubois S, Mahe G. Analysis of microvascular perfusion with multi-dimensional complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise algorithm: Processing of laser speckle contrast images recorded in healthy subjects, at rest and during acetylcholine stimulation. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015; 2015:7370-7373. [PMID: 26737994 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7320094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a full-field imaging modality to monitor microvascular blood flow. It is able to give images with high temporal and spatial resolutions. However, when the skin is studied, the interpretation of the bidimensional data may be difficult. This is why an averaging of the perfusion values in regions of interest is often performed and the result is followed in time, reducing the data to monodimensional time series. In order to avoid such a procedure (that leads to a loss of the spatial resolution), we propose to extract patterns from LSCI data and to compare these patterns for two physiological states in healthy subjects: at rest and at the peak of acetylcholine-induced perfusion peak. For this purpose, the recent multi-dimensional complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (MCEEMDAN) algorithm is applied to LSCI data. The results show that the intrinsic mode functions and residue given by MCEEMDAN show different patterns for the two physiological states. The images, as bidimensional data, can therefore be processed to reveal microvascular perfusion patterns, hidden in the images themselves. This work is therefore a feasibility study before analyzing data in patients with microvascular dysfunctions.
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Puissant C, Abraham P, Durand S, Humeau-Heurtier A, Faure S, Leftheriotis G, Mahé G. Assessment of endothelial function by acetylcholine iontophoresis: Impact of inter-electrode distance and electrical cutaneous resistance. Microvasc Res 2014; 93:114-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2014.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Revised: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Puissant C, Abraham P, Durand S, Humeau-Heurtier A, Faure S, Rousseau P, Mahé G. [Endothelial function: role, assessment and limits]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 39:47-56. [PMID: 24355615 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmv.2013.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2013] [Accepted: 10/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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For several years, detecting and preventing cardiovascular diseases have become a major issue. Different methods have been developed to evaluate endothelial function. Endothelial dysfunction is one of the first steps leading to atherosclerosis. This review presents an insight into endothelial function, the interests of its assessment and methods for studying endothelial function. To date, the vascular endothelium must be considered as a specific organ with its own functions that contribute to the homeostasis of the cardiovascular system. Endothelial dysfunction typically corresponds to a decrease of nitric oxide NO bioavailability. Biological or physico-chemical methods may be used to assess dysfunction. Biological methods allow measuring NO metabolites and pro-inflammatory and vasoconstrictor mediators released by the endothelium. The physico-chemical methods include intra-coronary injections, plethysmography, flow-mediated dilation (FMD), digital plethysmography and optical techniques using laser (laser Doppler single-point, laser Doppler imager, laser speckle contrast imaging) that can be coupled with provocation tests (iontophoresis, microdialysis, post-ischemic hyperemia, local heating). The principle of each technique and its use in clinical practice are discussed. Studying endothelial dysfunction is a particularly promising field because of new drugs being developed. Nevertheless, assessment methodology still needs further development to enable reliable, non-invasive, reproducible, and inexpensive ways to analyze endothelial dysfunction.
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- C Puissant
- Service des explorations fonctionnelles vasculaires, centre hospitalier universitaire, 49933 Angers cedex 9, France
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- Service des explorations fonctionnelles vasculaires, centre hospitalier universitaire, 49933 Angers cedex 9, France; Biologie neurovasculaire et mitochondriale intégrée (BNMI) - unité mixte UMR CNRS 6214/Inserm U 1083, faculté de médecine, LUNAM université, 49045 Angers, France
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- EA 4334 motricity, interactions, and performance, LUNAM université, université du Maine, 72085 Le Mans cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire d'ingénierie des systèmes automatisés (LISA), LUNAM université, université d'Angers, 49000 Angers, France
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- Stress oxydant et pathologies métaboliques (SOPAM), Inserm U1063, LUNAM université, université d'Angers, 40045 Angers, France
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- Département de chirurgie plastique, centre hospitalier universitaire, 49933 Angers cedex 9, France
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- Biologie neurovasculaire et mitochondriale intégrée (BNMI) - unité mixte UMR CNRS 6214/Inserm U 1083, faculté de médecine, LUNAM université, 49045 Angers, France; Pôle imagerie médicale, centre hospitalier universitaire Pontchaillou, 2, avenue du Pr-Léon-Bernard, 35033 Rennes cedex 9, France.
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Abraham P, Mahe G. Linguistic Analysis of Laser Speckle Contrast Images Recorded at Rest and During Biological Zero: Comparison With Laser Doppler Flowmetry Data. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2013; 32:2311-2321. [PMID: 24058017 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2013.2281620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a newly commercialized imaging modality to monitor microvascular blood flow. Contrary to the well-known laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), LSCI has the advantage of giving a full-field image of surface blood flow using simple instrumentation. However, laser speckle contrast images are not fully understood yet and their link with LDF signals still has to be studied. To quantify the similarity between LSCI and LDF symbolic sequences, we propose to use, for the first time, the index adapted from linguistic analysis and information theory proposed by Yang For this purpose, LSCI and LDF data were recorded simultaneously on the forearm of healthy subjects, at rest and during a vascular occlusion (biological zero). We show that there are different dynamical patterns for LSCI and LDF data, and the distances between these patterns differ through the space scales explored. Moreover, our results suggest that these different dynamical patterns could be linked to blood flow. The quantitative metric used herein therefore provides new information on LSCI and brings knowledge on links between LSCI and LDF.
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Abraham P, Bourgeau M, Camo M, Humeau-Heurtier A, Durand S, Rousseau P, Mahe G. Effect of skin temperature on skin endothelial function assessment. Microvasc Res 2013; 88:56-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2013.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2013] [Accepted: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Mahe G, Durand S, Abraham P. Multiscale Entropy Study of Medical Laser Speckle Contrast Images. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2013; 60:872-9. [DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2012.2208642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Guerreschi E, Abraham P, Mahe G. Relevance of Laser Doppler and Laser Speckle Techniques for Assessing Vascular Function: State of the Art and Future Trends. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2013; 60:659-66. [DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2013.2243449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Senarathna J, Rege A, Li N, Thakor NV. Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging: theory, instrumentation and applications. IEEE Rev Biomed Eng 2013; 6:99-110. [PMID: 23372086 DOI: 10.1109/rbme.2013.2243140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) is a wide field of view, non scanning optical technique for observing blood flow. Speckles are produced when coherent light scattered back from biological tissue is diffracted through the limiting aperture of focusing optics. Mobile scatterers cause the speckle pattern to blur; a model can be constructed by inversely relating the degree of blur, termed speckle contrast to the scatterer speed. In tissue, red blood cells are the main source of moving scatterers. Therefore, blood flow acts as a virtual contrast agent, outlining blood vessels. The spatial resolution (~10 μm) and temporal resolution (10 ms to 10 s) of LSCI can be tailored to the application. Restricted by the penetration depth of light, LSCI can only visualize superficial blood flow. Additionally, due to its non scanning nature, LSCI is unable to provide depth resolved images. The simple setup and non-dependence on exogenous contrast agents have made LSCI a popular tool for studying vascular structure and blood flow dynamics. We discuss the theory and practice of LSCI and critically analyze its merit in major areas of application such as retinal imaging, imaging of skin perfusion as well as imaging of neurophysiology.
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- Janaka Senarathna
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Mahe G, Abraham P, Le Faucheur A, Bruneau A, Humeau-Heurtier A, Durand S. Cutaneous microvascular functional assessment during exercise: a novel approach using laser speckle contrast imaging. Pflugers Arch 2013; 465:451-8. [PMID: 23328863 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-012-1215-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Accepted: 12/31/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases are often revealed during exercise and are associated with cutaneous blood flow (CBF) dysfunction. Studies of CBF during exercise are consequently of interest. Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) allows for non-contact and real-time recording of CBF at rest. We tested whether LSCI could allow the study of CBF during a cycling exercise using a specific signal treatment procedure that removes movement-induced artefacts from the LSCI raw signal. We recorded the baseline CBF and peak post-occlusive reactive hyperaemia (PORH) from the cutaneous forearm using LSCI and the mean blood pressure before and during cycling (80 W at 70 rpm) in nine healthy subjects. We determined the cross-correlation coefficient r between LSCI traces obtained before and during cycling and before and after a specifically designed signal processing technique. The results are presented as the median (25th-75th centile) and expressed as the cutaneous vascular conductance (laser speckle perfusion units (LSPU) per millimetre of mercury). Cross-correlation r increased from 0.226 ± 0.140 before to 0.683 ± 0.170 after post-processing. After signal processing, the peak PORH during exercise was reduced [0.38 (0.30-0.52) LSPU/mmHg] compared with the peak PORH during the non-exercise phase [0.69 (0.63-0.74) LSPU/mmHg, p < 0.01], whereas no difference was found between the baseline values. With adequate signal processing, LSCI appears valuable for investigating CBF during exercise. During constant-load lower limb cycling exercise, the upper limb peak PORH is reduced compared with the peak PORH during non-exercise. The underlying mechanisms warrant further investigations in both healthy (trained) subjects and diseased (e.g., coronary heart disease) patients.
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- G Mahe
- Laboratory of Vascular Investigations, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France.
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Mahé G, Durand S, Henrion D, Abraham P. Laser speckle contrast imaging: Multifractal analysis of data recorded in healthy subjects. Med Phys 2012; 39:5849-56. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4748506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Abraham P, Durand S, Leftheriotis G, Henrion D, Mahé G. Clinical use of laser speckle techniques: beyond the sole mapping. Med Biol Eng Comput 2012; 50:1001-2. [DOI: 10.1007/s11517-012-0942-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2012] [Accepted: 07/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Humeau-Heurtier A, Buard B, Mahe G, Abraham P. Laser speckle contrast imaging of the skin: interest in processing the perfusion data. Med Biol Eng Comput 2011; 50:103-5. [DOI: 10.1007/s11517-011-0856-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2011] [Accepted: 12/13/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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