Proportional Relations Between Systolic, Diastolic and Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure are Explained by Vascular Properties

Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-23

  Kind, Taco ^a   Faes, Theo J C ^a   Vonk Noordegraaf, Anton ^a   Westerhof, Nico ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elastance model; Pressure; Proportional pressure; Pulmonary artery; Three element windkessel model

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL COMPLIANCE; ARTERIAL SYSTEMS; BASELINE MODELS; CARDIAC PARAMETERS; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; ELASTANCE; ELASTANCE MODEL; HEART RATES; HYPERBOLIC RELATIONS; IN-CONTROL; MODEL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE RATIO; PROPORTIONAL PRESSURE; PROPORTIONAL RELATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THREE-ELEMENT WINDKESSEL MODEL; TIME VARYING; VENTRICULAR INTERACTION; WINDKESSEL MODELS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HEART;

ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 79952739843     PISSN: 1869408X     EISSN: 18694098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13239-010-0027-1     Document Type: Article

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