[Determination of the free oxygen tension in the tissues of the lower extermities in varicose disease and the postthrombophlebitic syndrome].

The determination of the free oxygen tension in the calf muscles was carried out in 118 patients with varicosis and postthrombophlebitic syndrome. It was found that with the progress of hemodynamic disturbances the severity degree of chronic tissue hypoxia rises. In early postoperative period in patients operated upon during the compensatory and subcompensatory stages of venous reflux the polarography indices proved a considerable improvement of the tissue oxygen balance.