Figure 3.

Upper-thigh girth and cross-sectional area of the legs exposed to 3 h of ischemia and 24 h of reperfusion (grey) and the other legs, used as healthy controls (white). Girth and cross-sectional area are expressed in millimetres (mm, left axis) and millimetres squared (mm², right axis), respectively (A). Representative histological section of a limb subjected to ischemia–reperfusion (the green asterisk indicates an undamaged muscle fibber and the black asterisk shows a muscle fibber damaged by ischemia–reperfusion. The extensive polymorphonuclear cell infiltrate (stained in blue) and oedema between the muscle fibbers (white space) are also seen) (B).