Anna P Träger, Josefine S Günther, Roman Raming, Lars-Philip Paulus, Werner Lang, Alexander Meyer, Julius Kempf, Milenko Caranovic, Yi Li, Alexandra L Wagner, Lina Tan, Vera Danko, Regina Trollmann, Joachim Woelfle, Daniel Klett, Markus F Neurath, Adrian P Regensburger, Markus Eckstein, Wolfgang Uter, Michael Uder, Yvonne Herrmann, Maximilian J Waldner, Ferdinand Knieling, Ulrich Rother
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) leads to chronic vascular occlusion and results in end organ damage in critically perfused limbs. There are currently no clinical methods available to determine the muscular damage induced by chronic mal-perfusion. This monocentric prospective cross-sectional study investigated n = 193 adults, healthy to severe PAD, in order to quantify the degree of calf muscle degeneration caused by PAD using a non-invasive hybrid ultrasound and single wavelength optoacoustic imaging (US/SWL-OAI) approach...
February 2024: Photoacoustics