[Comparative value of Doppler graphic indices of blood flow rate and pressure in the assessment of the degree of lower limb ischemia].

The authors studied the dependence of Doppler graphic indices of blood flow and pressure at rest on the degree of ischemia of the lower limbs determined by the multistep treadmill test. They examined 50 patients with angiographically detected occluding lesions of the lower-limb arteries. The indices of pressure reflected the degree of the severity of lower-limb ischemia well, but the indices of linear blood flow rate did not correlate with it.