12.18 COMPARISON OF THE CENTRAL PRESSURE MEASURED WITH A BRACHIAL CUFF AND INVASIVELY MEASURED AORTIC PRESSURE
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Central aortic pressure is a better predictor for cardiovascular events than brachial pressure1. There are a number of devices on the market that find a continuous measurement of pressure in the arm, and from it estimate the central aortic pressure2. In this study we focus on one such device, the PulseCor 6.5 Monitor (PulseCor, Auckland, New Zealand) 3. We compare its output (central aortic pressure waveforms) with an ensemble average of the aortic pressure waveforms measured invasively using a pressure catheter (ComboWire XT GuideWire, Volcano Corporation, Belgium). The results show that the central aortic pressure waveforms have a qualitatively and quantitatively similar shape to the invasively measured waveforms (R=0.9505) (a typical result is shown in figure). The average differences in the systolic and diastolic readings of the device with the invasive measurements are 6.75 mmHg with range [−13.09, 32.0] and 18.15 mmHg with range [−8.45, 86.38], respectively (N=8). We conclude that although the non-invasively measured systolic and diastolic pressures do not match exactly to the invasive measured ones, the waveforms of both measurements are similar.
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TY - JOUR AU - O. Korolkova AU - A. Lowe AU - J.E. Davies AU - A.D. Hughes AU - K.H. Parker AU - J.H. Siggers PY - 2011 DA - 2011/11/29 TI - 12.18 COMPARISON OF THE CENTRAL PRESSURE MEASURED WITH A BRACHIAL CUFF AND INVASIVELY MEASURED AORTIC PRESSURE JO - Artery Research SP - 204 EP - 205 VL - 5 IS - 4 SN - 1876-4401 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artres.2011.10.201 DO - 10.1016/j.artres.2011.10.201 ID - Korolkova2011 ER -