Abstract
While for years clinicians have used cuff pressure to assess patients’ cardiovascular risk, recent evidences has shown that aortic pressure, or more specifically aortic systolic and aortic pulse pressures, have a better prognostic value to predict cardiovascular events and mortality. This led to the emergence of multiple methods and devices to assess aortic pressure non-invasively. Some use scaled waveforms measured at the carotid level with tonometry, or ultrasounds. Others use transfer function or mathematical modelling from radial or brachial traces acquired from volume plethsymography or applanation tonometry. Not all these techniques are equivalent and most of them have the major flaw of using brachial cuff pressure to scale their results. The purpose of this review is to present the strengths and weaknesses of techniques and various commercial devices to estimate aortic systolic pressure.
Keywords: Central pressure, aortic pressure, applanation tonometry, echotracking, transfer function, pulse wave analysis.
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Title:Non-invasive Estimation of Aortic Blood Pressures: A Close Look at Current Devices and Methods
Volume: 21 Issue: 6
Author(s): Sandrine Millasseau and Davide Agnoletti
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Keywords: Central pressure, aortic pressure, applanation tonometry, echotracking, transfer function, pulse wave analysis.
Abstract: While for years clinicians have used cuff pressure to assess patients’ cardiovascular risk, recent evidences has shown that aortic pressure, or more specifically aortic systolic and aortic pulse pressures, have a better prognostic value to predict cardiovascular events and mortality. This led to the emergence of multiple methods and devices to assess aortic pressure non-invasively. Some use scaled waveforms measured at the carotid level with tonometry, or ultrasounds. Others use transfer function or mathematical modelling from radial or brachial traces acquired from volume plethsymography or applanation tonometry. Not all these techniques are equivalent and most of them have the major flaw of using brachial cuff pressure to scale their results. The purpose of this review is to present the strengths and weaknesses of techniques and various commercial devices to estimate aortic systolic pressure.
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Millasseau Sandrine and Agnoletti Davide, Non-invasive Estimation of Aortic Blood Pressures: A Close Look at Current Devices and Methods, Current Pharmaceutical Design 2015; 21 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1381612820666141023163748
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1381612820666141023163748 |
Print ISSN 1381-6128 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
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