MICROCIRCULATION

Condition of capillary system as the most important link in the circulatory bed, which provides organs and tissues with all necessary substances for life, gives a lot of interesting additional information for diagnostics. Today the capillaroscopy, which helps to visualize microcirculation disturbances, became the one of the progressive diagnosing methods owing to the up-to-date electronic – computed technologies.

During the examination of the microcirculation picture we gradually compose the following classification for capillaroscopic images (patent of the State Patent Office of Ukraine № 67709 А on 31.12.03 “Assessment with the capillaroscopy method of disturbances in microcirculation in the normal state and in case of the pathology in people of different age”):

1. Capillary form:

• classical loop;

• atypical (bifurcation, trifurcation, quadrifurcation);

• moderately tortuous loop;

• a curl;

• tortuousity;

• ansiformation;

• a crossed capillary

2. Capillary length:

• dotted;

• short;

• middle;

• long.

3. Capillary type according to their caliber:

• microcaliber;

• middlecaliber;

• macrocaliber.

4. Specific gravity of capillaries:

• reduced (up to 16 per 2 mm);

• sufficient (16-20 per 2 mm);

• oversaturated (over 20 per 2 mm).

5. Presence of a capillary net:

• like a root;

• like a serpentine;

• children type;

• adolescent type;

• adult type.

6. Level of blood supply:

• the whole capillary is filled evenly;

• a precapillary has a deficiency of blood filling;

• a postcapillary has a deficiency of blood filling;

• by a type of the “air embolism”.

7. An effect of the “monetary columns”:

• present;

• absent.

8. Capillary circulation rate:

• reduced;

• normal;

• intensified.

9. Background of the capillary field:

• muddy-pink;

• light-pink;

• marble.