Artery Research

Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 204 - 205

12.18 COMPARISON OF THE CENTRAL PRESSURE MEASURED WITH A BRACHIAL CUFF AND INVASIVELY MEASURED AORTIC PRESSURE

Authors
O. Korolkova1, A. Lowe2, J.E. Davies1, A.D. Hughes1, K.H. Parker1, J.H. Siggers1
1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
2PulseCor Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
Available Online 29 November 2011.
DOI
10.1016/j.artres.2011.10.201How to use a DOI?
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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.

1AM Dart, CD Gatzka, et al., Hypertension, Vol. 47, 2006, pp. 785-790.
2JG Kips et al., J Hypertension, Vol. 29, 2011, pp. 1115-20.
3A Lowe et al., J Biomechanics, Vol. 42, 2009, pp. 2111-5.
Journal
Artery Research
Volume-Issue
5 - 4
Pages
204 - 205
Publication Date
2011/11/29
ISSN (Online)
1876-4401
ISSN (Print)
1872-9312
DOI
10.1016/j.artres.2011.10.201How to use a DOI?
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.

Cite this article

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