Echocardiographic assessment of aortic elastic properties with automated border detection in an ICU: In vivo application of the arctangent Langewouters model

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 288, Issue 5 57-5, 2005, Pages

  Heerman, Jan R ^a   Segers, Patrick ^b   Roosens, Carl D ^a   Gasthuys, Frank ^c   Verdonck, Pascal R ^b   Poelaert, Jan I ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Institute of Biomedical Technology   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Afterload; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Intensive care unit; Large artery function; Nitroprusside

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; APPARATUS; ARCTANGENT LANGEWOUTERS MODEL; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DESCENDING AORTA; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NITROPRUSSIDE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 18144366935     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00368.2004     Document Type: Article

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