Manipulation of arterial stiffness, wave reflections, and retrograde shear rate in the femoral artery using lower limb external compression

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Heffernan, Kevin S ^a   Lefferts, Wesley K ^a   Kasprowicz, Ari G ^a   Tarzia, Brendan J ^a   Thijssen, Dick H ^b,c   Brutsaert, Tom D ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Hemodynamics; Intimamedia thickness; Wave reflections

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLOW RATE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMATIC CUFF; PULSE WAVE; SHEAR RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 85008953616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.22     Document Type: Article

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