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Burst pressure of canine carotid arteries
R Roeder1, J Wolfe, N Lianakis
1Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafeyette, IN 47907-1206 USA.
Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine
|September 9, 2000
Abstract:
The burst pressure was measured on 40 freshly excised, unstretched carotid arteries derived from dogs ranging in weight from 20-25 kg. Each carotid artery specimen was tied to the nozzle of a high-pressure nitrogen tank and regulator. The pressure was slowly increased until the artery burst. The burst pressure ranged from 2400 to 6500 mmHg, a value well above typical mammalian systolic pressure.