Live Demonstration: Morphic Sensor for Diagnosis of Peripheral Vascular Disease

Peripheral vascular diseases, in particular including peripheral arterial disease and chronic venous insufficiency, affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. These conditions are often symptomless and go undiagnosed. Early diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment and reducing personal and economic costs, particularly where early treatment is geared towards preventing lower extremity amputation. New diagnostic tools are needed to enable this earlier intervention [1]. We have developed a new low-cost, easy to use, non-invasive hemodynamic monitor, HeMo, to address this large and growing problem [2], [3]. This novel device can measure arterial blood flow from the entire limb and venous refilling in real-time. In this manner, both peripheral arterial disease and chronic venous insufficiency may be diagnosed. Indeed, it is now in its first clinical trial in patients with peripheral vascular disease. We believe that this work will lead to the availability of a fast, easy to use and cost-effective vascular assessment tool, dramatically shortening the time to diagnosis and subsequently intervention, dramatically improving the prognosis of affected patients.