Limitations and pitfalls of non-invasive measurement of arterial pressure wave reflections and pulse wave velocity

Artery Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 79-88

  Segers, Patrick ^a   Kips, Jan ^a,b   Trachet, Bram ^a   Swillens, Abigail ^a   Vermeersch, Sebastian ^a   Mahieu, Dries ^b   Rietzschel, Ernst ^c   De Buyzere, Marc ^c   Van Bortel, Luc ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aorta; Arterial stiffness; Augmentation index; Hemodynamics; Pulse wave velocity; Wave reflection

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 67649538290     PISSN: 18729312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artres.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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