Clinical use of applanation tonometry: Hope remains in Pandora's box

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-233

  O'Rourke, Michael F ^a   Adji, Audrey ^a  

^a ST VINCENT'S CLINIC   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INDAPAMIDE PLUS PERINDOPRIL;

AGING; AORTA PRESSURE; APONEUROSIS; APPLANATION TONOMETRY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTIFACT; ASCENDING AORTA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BREATHING; CALIBRATION; CAROTID ARTERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMERUS; IMPEDANCE; MANOMETRY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOTE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TONOMETER; TONOMETRY; VALIDITY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 75149171005     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328334cb2a     Document Type: Note

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