MICROCIRCULATION OF THE SKIN IN WORKERS OF GAS-PROCESSING PLANT

Microcirculatory disorders play an important role in the pathogenesis of dermatoses, including those caused by the influence of adverse factors of production environment. 158 men from the Astrakhan gas processing plant (AGPS) aged from 28 to 59 years (40.23 ± 0.49 years) and 77 healthy volunteers, resident in the city of Astrakhan in age from 25 to 55 years (38,18 ± 0,99 years) were examined. Depending on the technological stage of processing of reservoir gas workers AGPS had contact with various harmful and dangerous factors, among which were the formation of gas, elementary sulfur, hydrocarbons, saturated and unsaturated aliphatic compound, nitrogen oxides, etc. In more than 90% of cases in the skin of workers AGPS serious violations of blood perfusion in small vessels, and in the surface areas more often than in the deep, while marked asymmetry of cutaneous microcirculation were revealed. Laser Doppler flowmetry can be recommended as a noninvasive method of monitoring the condition of microcirculation and early diagnosis of premorbid changes in the skin of workers of the gas processing plant exposed to adverse factors of production environment.

Astrakhan gas processing plant, laser Doppler flowmetry, microcirculation of the skin