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Relationship between the pressure and diameter of the carotid artery in humans
M Sugawara1, K Niki, H Furuhata
1Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Japan. prsuga@hij.twmu.ac.jp
Heart and Vessels
|September 23, 2000
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the assumption of similarity between pressure and diameter-change waveforms in humans. We measured carotid arterial pressure and diameter change, simultaneously, in six patients with heart disease. In all patients, the carotid arterial pressure-diameter relationship could, in practice, be regarded as being linear.