Peripheral blood perfusion controlled by auricular vagus nerve stimulation

Jozsef Constantin Szeles, Stefan Kampusch, Eugenijus Kaniusas

Abstract


Percutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation was performed to investigate effects of external nervous system control on peripheral blood perfusion. Blood perfusion was monitored by temperature changes using infrared imaging. Favourable effects of the stimulation were shown in two patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease and chronic diabetic wound, respectively. Besides an absolute increase in mean temperature, the stimulation evoked widening of higher temperature and shrinkage of lower temperature regions.

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KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY.