Skin temperature of the foot: A comparative study between familial amyloid polyneuropathy and diabetic foot patients

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Adérito Seixas (Author) Other; Maria do Carmo Vilas Boas (Author) Other; Rui Carvalho (Author) Other; Teresa Coelho (Author) Other; Kurt Ammer (Author) Other; João Paulo Vilas Boas (Author) FADEUP; Ricardo Vardasca (Author) FEUP; João Paulo Silva Cunha (Author) FEUP; Joaquim Mendes (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering: ECCOMAS 2017: VipIMAGE 2017

Pages: 1048-1052

6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VipIMAGE)

Porto, PORTUGAL, OCT 18-20, 2017

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FOS: Social sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-5WQ

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_116

Abstract (EN): Skin temperature regulation is dependant of the autonomic nervous system function, which may be impaired in patients with neuropathy. Studies reporting thermographic assessment of patients with established diagnosis of Diabetic Foot (DF) are scarce but this information is completely absent in patients suffering from Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP). The aim of this study is to compare skin temperature distribution in patients with DF and TTR-FAP. Thermograms of the dorsal and plantar surfaces were compared. Skin temperature was higher in the diabetic foot group and differences were statistically significant (p < 0.05) in both regions of interest.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5