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In fact, in patients with suspected TOS but without chronic venous occlusion, the forearm volume changes may result from various combinations of forearm position from heart level, arterial inflow, and\/or venous outflow positional impairment.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Design:<\/jats:bold> Cross sectional, retrospective, single center study, accessible on Clinicaltrial.gov under reference NCT04376177.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Material:<\/jats:bold> We used venous photo-plethysmography (V-PPG) in 151 patients with suspected TOS. The subjects elevated their arms to the \u201ccandlestick\u201d (Ca) position for 30 s and then kept their arm elevated in front of the body for an additional 15 s (\u201cprayer\u201d position; Pra). This CA\u2013Pra procedure was repeated three times by each patient with recording of both arms.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method:<\/jats:bold> We classified V-PPG recordings using an automatic clustering method.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Result:<\/jats:bold> The blinded clustering classification of 893 V-PPG recordings (13 missing files) resulted in four out of seven clusters, allowing the classification of more than 99% of the available recordings. Each cluster included 65.73, 6.16, 17.13, and 10.8% of the recordings, respectively.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> Venous hemodynamic profiles in TOS are not only either normal or abnormal. With V-PPG, four clusters were observed to be consistent with, and assumed to result from, the four possible associations of presence\/absence of arterial inflow\/venous outflow positional impairment: (1) normal response (maximal emptying in Ca and Pra), (2) isolated inflow impairment (emptying in Ca and filling in Pra due to post-ischemic vasodilation), (3) isolated venous outflow impairment (emptying then filling in Ca due to arterial inflow and emptying in Pra), and (4) simultaneous inflow\/outflow impairment (emptying in Ca but no filling due to concomitant inflow impairment and further emptying in Pra).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2021.652456","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,13]],"date-time":"2021-04-13T06:25:31Z","timestamp":1618295131000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Forearm Volume Changes Estimated by Photo-Plethysmography During an Original Candlestick\/Prayer Maneuver in Patients With Suspected Thoracic Outlet Syndrome"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Jeanne","family":"Hersant","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pierre","family":"Ramondou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Victoire","family":"Chavignier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Axelle","family":"Chavanon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mathieu","family":"Feuilloy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jean","family":"Picquet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Samir","family":"Henni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pierre","family":"Abraham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1129","DOI":"10.1007\/s00276-015-1445-4","article-title":"Three superficial veins coursing over the clavicles: a case report","volume":"37","author":"Anastasopoulos","year":"2015","journal-title":"Surg. 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