Brachial artery elastic mechanics in patients with heart failure

Hypertension

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1440-1445

  Kaiser, Daniel R ^a,b   Mullen, Kathleen ^a   Bank, Alan J ^a,b  

^a St Paul Heart Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Compliance; Elasticity; Heart failure; Muscle, smooth, vascular; Nitroglycerin; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY WALL; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; TONOMETRY; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0035678557     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hy1201.096539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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