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Echeverría NI, Scandurra AG, Acosta CM, Meschino GJ, Suarez Sipmann F, Tusman G. Photoplethysmography waveform analysis for classification of vascular tone and arterial blood pressure: Study based on neural networks. REVISTA ESPANOLA DE ANESTESIOLOGIA Y REANIMACION 2023; 70:209-217. [PMID: 36868265 DOI: 10.1016/j.redare.2022.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/09/2022] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND To test whether a Shallow Neural Network (S-NN) can detect and classify vascular tone dependent changes in arterial blood pressure (ABP) by advanced photopletysmographic (PPG) waveform analysis. METHODS PPG and invasive ABP signals were recorded in 26 patients undergoing scheduled general surgery. We studied the occurrence of episodes of hypertension (systolic arterial pressure (SAP) >140 mmHg), normotension and hypotension (SAP < 90 mmHg). Vascular tone according to PPG was classified in two ways: 1) By visual inspection of changes in PPG waveform amplitude and dichrotic notch position; where Classes I-II represent vasoconstriction (notch placed >50% of PPG amplitude in small amplitude waves), Class III normal vascular tone (notch placed between 20-50% of PPG amplitude in normal waves) and Classes IV-V-VI vasodilation (notch <20% of PPG amplitude in large waves). 2) By an automated analysis, using S-NN trained and validated system that combines seven PPG derived parameters. RESULTS The visual assessment was precise in detecting hypotension (sensitivity 91%, specificity 86% and accuracy 88%) and hypertension (sensitivity 93%, specificity 88% and accuracy 90%). Normotension presented as a visual Class III (III-III) (median and 1st-3rd quartiles), hypotension as a Class V (IV-VI) and hypertension as a Class II (I-III); all p < .0001. The automated S-NN performed well in classifying ABP conditions. The percentage of data with correct classification by S-ANN was 83% for normotension, 94% for hypotension, and 90% for hypertension. CONCLUSIONS Changes in ABP were correctly classified automatically by S-NN analysis of the PPG waveform contour.
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- N I Echeverría
- Laboratorio de Bioingeniería, ICYTE-CONICET, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Bioingeniería, ICYTE-CONICET, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Anestesiología, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Bioingeniería, ICYTE-CONICET, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio Hedenstierna, Departamento de Ciencias quirúrgicas, Universidad de Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Cuidados Críticos, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Anestesiología, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Hinrichs T, Portegijs E, Rantanen T, Infanger D, Schmidt-Trucksäss A, Karavirta L. Association between arterial stiffness and walking capacity in older adults. Exp Gerontol 2022; 167:111925. [PMID: 35963452 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2022.111925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIM Arterial stiffening - a process that is largely due to intimal thickening, collagen disposition or elastin fragmentation - significantly contributes to cardiovascular events and mortality. There is also some evidence that it may negatively affect physical function. This study aimed to evaluate whether arterial stiffness was associated with measures of walking capacity in a large, population-based sample of highly aged older adults. METHODS A population-based sample of 910 community-dwelling adults (aged 75, 80, or 85 years) were investigated in a cross-sectional observational study. Pulse wave velocity (PWV), a surrogate marker of arterial stiffness, was estimated based on the oscillometric recording of pulse waves at the brachial artery site. Walking capacity was assessed by 10-meter habitual walking speed, 10-meter maximum walking speed, and six-minute walk distance. We used multiple linear regression models to examine possible associations between PWV and parameters of walking capacity, and we adjusted the models for sex, age, socioeconomic status, anthropometry, physician-diagnosed diseases, prescription medication, smoking history, physical activity, and mean arterial pressure. Continuous variables were modelled using restricted cubic splines to account for potential nonlinear associations. RESULTS Mean (standard deviation) 10-meter habitual walking speed, 10-meter maximum walking speed, and six-minute walk distance were 1.3 (0.2) m/s, 1.7 (0.4) m/s, and 413 (85) m, respectively. The fully adjusted regression models revealed no evidence for associations between PWV and parameters of walking capacity (all p-values >0.05). CONCLUSION Our results did not confirm previous findings suggesting a potential negative association between arterial stiffness and walking capacity in old age. Longitudinal studies, potentially taking additional confounders into account, are needed to disentangle the complex relationship between the two factors.
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- Timo Hinrichs
- Division of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Center for Human Movement Sciences, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences and Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Division of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Division of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences and Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Pahlevan NM, Mazandarani SP. Estimation of Wave Condition Number From Pressure Waveform Alone and Its Changes With Advancing Age in Healthy Women and Men. Front Physiol 2020; 11:313. [PMID: 32328003 PMCID: PMC7161432 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Introduction The wave condition number (WCN) is a non-dimensional number that determines the state of arterial wave reflections. WCN is equal to HR × Leff/PWV where HR, Leff, and PWV are the heart rate, effective length, and pulse wave velocity, respectively. It has been shown that a value of WCN = 0.1 indicates the optimum state of arterial wave reflection in which left ventricle workload is minimized. The pressure wave, flow wave, and PWV are all required to compute WCN, which may limit the potential clinical utility of WCN. The aims of this study are as follows: (1) to assess the feasibility of approximating WCN from the pressure waveform alone (WCNPinf), and (2) to provide the proof-of-concept that WCNPinf can capture age related differences in arterial wave reflection among healthy women and men. Methods Previously published retrospective data composed of seventeen patients (age 19–54 years; 34.3 ± 9.6) were used to assess the accuracy of WCNPinf. The exact value of WCN was computed from PWV (measured by foot-to-foot method), HR, and Leff. A quarter wavelength relationship with minimum impedance modulus were used to compute Leff. WCNPinf was calculated using HR and the reflected wave arrival time. Previously published analyses from a healthy subset of the Anglo-Cardiff Collaborative Trial (ACCT) study population were used to investigate if non-invasive WCNPinf captures age related differences in arterial wave reflection among healthy women and men. Results A strong correlation (r = 0.83, p-value <0.0001) between WCNPinf and WCN was observed. The accuracy of WCNPinf was independent from relevant physiological parameters such as PWV, pulse pressure (PP), and HR. Similar changes in WCNPinf with advancing age were observed in both healthy men and healthy women. In young, healthy individuals (women and men) the WCNPinf was around 0.1 (the optimum value), and reduced with aging. Conclusion WCN can be approximated from a single pressure waveform and can capture age related arterial wave reflection alteration. These results are clinically significant since WCN can be extracted from a single non-invasive pressure waveform. Future studies will focus on investigating if WCN is associated with risk for onset of cardiovascular disease events.
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- Niema M Pahlevan
- Department of Aerospace Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Economics, Geography, and Political Science, Division of Language, Humanity, and Social Science, Riverside City College, Riverside, CA, United States
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Biederman RWW, Doyle M, Correa-Jaque P, Rayarao G, Benza RL. Integrated use of cardiac MRI and the CardioMEMS™ HF system in PAH: the utility of coincident pressure and volume in RV failure-the NHLBI-VITA trial. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 2019; 9:492-501. [PMID: 31737520 DOI: 10.21037/cdt.2019.09.05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Background This study aims to study the feasibility and safety of measuring volumetric and pressure parameters noninvasively using simultaneous cardiovascular magnetic resonance (cMR) volumetric data and time-resolved pressure waveforms from previously implanted CardioMEMS devices in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients. Opportunities to intervene during clinically occult phases in PAH promise to herald a key transformation in our current practice for treating this complex population. Currently, it is possible and convenient to monitor daily pulmonary arterial (PA) pressures in PAH patients using the CardioMEMS device to determine clinically silent progression. Supplementation of these pressures with other prognostic measurements of right ventricular (RV) contractility, PA resistance and RV/PA coupling could add further predictive capabilities. Methods PAH patients (n=17) with New York Hospital Association (NYHA) class III or IV heart failure (HF) and recent HF related hospitalizations were implanted with the CardioMEMS device as part of a NHLBI sponsored Trial. Implanted patients were then assessed using cMR imaging of the right ventricle (RV) along with measurement of pulmonary artery flow. Patients were imaged at one-month post implant (baseline) and at 4-month follow-up time (n=12). At baseline, patients were studied at rest and then under three different physiologic conditions: inhaled nitric oxide (INO), dobutamine (Dob) stress and volumetric stress (Vol), using a multiple slice short-axis imaging and a rapid imaging protocol. Results All patients were safely imaged, with no artifacts obscuring the cMR images. RV volumes were measured successfully at rest and under each stress condition using a reduced scan approach that required calibration for each patient which achieved a correlation r2 of 0.98. Variables measured included the maximal pulmonary artery elastance (Ea), maximal RV myocardial elastance (Emax) and ventricular-vascular coupling ratio (VVC). The response to stressors was determined on a patient basis. No complications occurred during the cMRI examination. Conclusions It is safe and feasible to perform cMR imaging with simultaneous pulmonary artery pressure readings from the CardioMEMS device. A reduced scan approach was developed to allowed measurement of RV volumes during stress conditions. Volumetric and pressure measurements can be combined to assess fundamental myocardial properties (e.g., Emax, Ea and VVC) in PAH patients serially over time. In the future, these parameters can be tested as serial predictors of outcome and response to therapies in PAH.
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- Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Paul TK, Alamin AE, Subedi P, Zhang M, Diab MM, Alamian A, Wang L, Blackwell G, Mamudu HM. Association between cardiovascular risk factors and the diameter of the main pulmonary artery in asymptomatic population in the Appalachian region. J Thorac Dis 2019; 11:3435-3442. [PMID: 31559048 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2019.08.09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Background Pulmonary artery (PA) diameter may be altered in association with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors as noted in aorta in systemic hypertension. The flow of blood from the right ventricle to the PA and all the way to the capillary level depends on the pulmonary vascular resistance and to a lesser extent compliance and impedance of the PA, which are the fundamental conduit for maintenance of the right heart hemodynamics. Our objective is to determine the association between CV risk factors and the main pulmonary artery (MPA) diameter. Methods The study population are asymptomatic individuals with no known diagnosis of CV diseases in central Appalachia (n=1,282). Adults aged 18 years or older were eligible for the screening if they were referred by a physician. For self-referral, only males aged ≥45 years and females aged ≥55 years were eligible. Unadjusted and adjusted linear regression analyses were performed. Results The mean MPA diameter was significantly higher among males compared to females (27.19±4.20 vs. 24.99±3.91 mm, P<0.0001). Participants with diabetes also had wider MPA diameter (26.79±4.56 mm) compared to those without diabetes (25.93±4.11 mm) (P=0.015). Further, hypertensive (26.42±4.15 vs. 25.71±4.21 mm, P=0.002) and obese (27.25±4.11 vs. 25.28±4.07 mm, P<0.0001) participants had significantly wider MPA diameter compared to non-hypertensive and non-obese participants, respectively. Multivariable model showed that age, sex and body mass index (BMI) were significantly associated with MPA diameter. A 1-year increase in age increased MPA diameter by 0.046 mm (P<0.0001). The diameter of MPA was wider among males by 2.16 mm compared to females (P<0.0001). Finally, with one unit increase in BMI, the MPA diameter increased by 0.16 mm (P<0.0001). Conclusions MPA diameter was significantly associated with age, sex, and BMI. Further prospective studies are needed to correlate computed tomography (CT) measurement of MPA diameter with pulmonary pressure as assessed by echocardiogram to diagnose pulmonary hypertension (PH).
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- Timir K Paul
- Division of Cardiology, James. H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Department of Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, James. H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37604, USA
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- Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Ballad Health, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Department of Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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Wang CH, Chang RW, Wu ET, Hsiao YJ, Wu MS, Yu HY, Chen YS, Lai LC, Yu SL. Extracorporeal Life Support Enhances the Forward Pressure Wave to Cause a Mismatch between Cardiac Oxygen Demand and Supply. Sci Rep 2019; 9:13882. [PMID: 31554923 PMCID: PMC6761175 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50428-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is a world-famous life-saving method. Until now, changes in arterial wave properties due to ECLS have remained unexamined. In this study, we determined the effects of ECLS on arterial wave properties and ventricular/arterial coupling in male Wistar rats with the measured aortic pressure alone. Ascending aortic pressure signals were measured before ECLS and at 30, 60, and 90 min after weaned off. The aortic pressure signal then calculated by fourth-order derivative to obtain an assumed triangular flow wave. The ratio of mean systolic pressure to mean diastolic pressure (Pms/Pmd), a parameter for evaluating the matching condition between myocardial oxygen demand and supply, was significantly higher after ECLS. The magnitude of forward pressure (|Pf|) augmented by ECLS prevailed over the backward pressure (|Pb|), leading to a decline in wave reflection factor. Pms/Pmd was positively linearly correlated with |Pf| (Pms/Pmd = 0.9177 + 0.0078 × |Pf|, r = 0.8677; P < 0.0001). These findings suggest that |Pf| was a predominant factor responsible for the mismatch between the myocardial oxygen demand and supply in rats after ECLS phase of experiment.
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- Chih-Hsien Wang
- Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Clinical and Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Clinical and Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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Mehmood M, Biederman RWW, Markert RJ, McCarthy MC, Tchorz KM. Right Heart Function in Critically Ill Patients at Risk for Acute Right Heart Failure: A Description of Right Ventricular-Pulmonary Arterial Coupling, Ejection Fraction and Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index. Heart Lung Circ 2019; 29:867-873. [PMID: 31257001 DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND The gold standard for right heart function is the assessment of right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling defined as the ratio of arterial to end-systolic elastance (Ea/Emax). This study demonstrates the use of the volumetric pulmonary artery (PA) catheter for estimation of Ea/Emax and describes trends of Ea/Emax, right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF), and pulmonary artery pulsatility index (PAPi) during initial 48hours of resuscitation in the trauma surgical intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS Review of prospectively collected data for 32 mechanically ventilated adult trauma and emergency general surgery patients enrolled within 6hours of admission to the ICU. Haemodynamics, recorded every 12hours for 48hours, were compared among survivors and non-survivors to hospital discharge. RESULTS Mean age was 49±20 years, 69% were male, and 84% were trauma patients. Estimated Ea/Emax was associated with pulmonary vascular resistance and inversely related to pulmonary arterial capacitance and PA catheter derived RVEF. Seven (7) trauma patients did not survive to hospital discharge. Non-survivors had higher estimated Ea/Emax, suggesting right ventricular-pulmonary arterial uncoupling, with a statistically significant difference at 48hours (2.3±1.7 vs 1.0±0.58, p=0.018). RVEF was significantly lower in non-survivors at study initiation and at 48hours. PAPi did not show a consistent trend. CONCLUSIONS Estimation of Ea/Emax using volumetric PA catheter is feasible. Serial assessment of RVEF and Ea/Emax may help in early identification of right heart dysfunction in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients at risk for acute right heart failure.
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- Muddassir Mehmood
- Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA.
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- Allegheny General Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Center for Cardiac MRI, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery, Dayton, OH, USA
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Tusman G, Acosta CM, Pulletz S, Böhm SH, Scandurra A, Arca JM, Madorno M, Sipmann FS. Photoplethysmographic characterization of vascular tone mediated changes in arterial pressure: an observational study. J Clin Monit Comput 2018; 33:815-824. [PMID: 30554338 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-018-0235-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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To determine whether a classification based on the contour of the photoplethysmography signal (PPGc) can detect changes in systolic arterial blood pressure (SAP) and vascular tone. Episodes of normotension (SAP 90-140 mmHg), hypertension (SAP > 140 mmHg) and hypotension (SAP < 90 mmHg) were analyzed in 15 cardiac surgery patients. SAP and two surrogates of the vascular tone, systemic vascular resistance (SVR) and vascular compliance (Cvasc = stroke volume/pulse pressure) were compared with PPGc. Changes in PPG amplitude (foot-to-peak distance) and dicrotic notch position were used to define 6 classes taking class III as a normal vascular tone with a notch placed between 20 and 50% of the PPG amplitude. Class I-to-II represented vasoconstriction with notch placed > 50% in a small PPG, while class IV-to-VI described vasodilation with a notch placed < 20% in a tall PPG wave. 190 datasets were analyzed including 61 episodes of hypertension [SAP = 159 (151-170) mmHg (median 1st-3rd quartiles)], 84 of normotension, SAP = 124 (113-131) mmHg and 45 of hypotension SAP = 85(80-87) mmHg. SAP were well correlated with SVR (r = 0.78, p < 0.0001) and Cvasc (r = 0.84, p < 0.0001). The PPG-based classification correlated well with SAP (r = - 0.90, p < 0.0001), SVR (r = - 0.72, p < 0.0001) and Cvasc (r = 0.82, p < 0.0001). The PPGc misclassified 7 out of the 190 episodes, presenting good accuracy (98.4% and 97.8%), sensitivity (100% and 94.9%) and specificity (97.9% and 99.2%) for detecting episodes of hypotension and hypertension, respectively. Changes in arterial pressure and vascular tone were closely related to the proposed classification based on PPG waveform.Clinical Trial Registration NTC02854852.
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- Gerardo Tusman
- Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, 7600, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, 7600, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany
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- Bioengineering Laboratory, Electronic Department, School of Engineering, Mar del Plata University, Mar del Plata, Argentina
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- Bioengineering Laboratory, Electronic Department, School of Engineering, Mar del Plata University, Mar del Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto Tecnológico Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Hedenstierna Laboratory, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,CIBERES, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Critical Care, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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Zachariah JP, Rong J, Larson MG, Hamburg NM, Benjamin EJ, Vasan RS, Mitchell GF. Metabolic Predictors of Change in Vascular Function: Prospective Associations From a Community-Based Cohort. Hypertension 2017; 71:237-242. [PMID: 29279312 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.117.10054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Vascular function varies with age because of physiological and pathological factors. We examined relations of longitudinal change in vascular function with change in metabolic traits. Longitudinal changes in vascular function and metabolic traits were examined in 5779 participants (mean age, 49.8±14.5 years; 54% women) who attended sequential examinations of the Framingham Offspring, Third Generation, and Omni-1 and Omni-2 cohorts. Multivariable regression analysis related changes in vascular measures (dependent variables), including carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CFPWV), forward pressure wave amplitude, characteristic impedance, central pulse pressure, and mean arterial pressure (MAP), with change in body mass index, fasting total:high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, serum triglycerides, and blood glucose. Analyses accounted for baseline value of each vascular and metabolic measure, MAP change, and multiple comparisons. On follow-up (mean, 5.9±0.6 years), aortic stiffness (CFPWV, 0.2±1.6 m/s), and pressure pulsatility (forward pressure wave, 1.2±12.4 mm Hg; characteristic impedance, 23±73 dyne×sec/cm5; central pulse pressure, 2.6±14.7 mm Hg; all P<0.0001) increased, whereas MAP fell (-3±10 mm Hg; P<0.0001). Worsening of each metabolic trait was associated with increases in CFPWV and MAP (P<0.0001 for all associations) and an increase in MAP was associated with an increase in CFPWV. Overall, worsening metabolic traits were associated with worsening aortic stiffness and MAP. Opposite net change in aortic stiffness and MAP suggests that factors other than distending pressure contributed to the observed increase in aortic stiffness. Change in metabolic traits explained a greater proportion of the change in CFPWV and MAP than baseline metabolic values.
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- Justin P Zachariah
- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.).
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- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.)
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- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.)
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- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.)
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- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.)
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- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.)
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- From the Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (J.P.Z.); Department of Biostatistics (J.R., M.G.L.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B., R.S.V.), School of Public Health, Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine (N.M.H., E.J.B., R.S.V.), Boston University's and National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's Framingham Heart Study (J.R., M.G.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.), and Department of Mathematics (M.G.L.), Boston University, MA; and Cardiovascular Engineering Inc, Norwood, MA (G.F.M.)
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Chang CY, Chang RW, Hsu SH, Wu MS, Cheng YJ, Kao HL, Lai LC, Wang CH, Chang KC. Defects in Vascular Mechanics Due to Aging in Rats: Studies on Arterial Wave Properties from a Single Aortic Pressure Pulse. Front Physiol 2017; 8:503. [PMID: 28751867 PMCID: PMC5508003 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Changes in vascular mechanics due to aging include elevated vascular impedance, diminished aorta distensibility, and an accelerated return of pulse wave reflection, which may increase the systolic workload on the heart. Classically, the accurate measurement of vascular mechanics requires the simultaneous recording of aortic pressure and flow signals. In practice, it is feasible to estimate arterial wave properties in terms of wave transit time (τw) and wave reflection index (RI) by using aortic pressure signal alone. In this study, we determined the τw and magnitudes of the forward (∣Pf∣) and backward (∣Pb∣) pressure waves in Long–Evans male rats aged 4 (n = 14), 6 (n = 17), 12 (n = 17), and 18 (n = 24) months, based on the measured aortic pressure and an assumed triangular flow (Qtri). The pulsatile pressure wave was the only signal recorded in the ascending aorta by using a high-fidelity pressure sensor. The base of the unknown Qtri was constructed using a duration, which equals to the ejection time. The timing at the peak of the triangle was derived using the fourth-order derivative of the aortic pressure waveform. In the 18-month-old rats, the ratio of τw to left ventricular ejection time (LVET) decreased, indicating a decline in the distensibility of the aorta. The increased ∣Pb∣ associated with unaltered ∣Pf∣ enhanced the RI in the older rats. The augmentation index (AI) also increased significantly with age. A significant negative correlation between the AI and τw/LVET was observed: AI = −0.7424 − 0.9026 × (τw/LVET) (r = 0.4901; P < 0.0001). By contrast, RI was positively linearly correlated with the AI as follows: AI = −0.4844 + 2.3634 × RI (r = 0.8423; P < 0.0001). Both the decreased τw/LVET and increased RI suggested that the aging process may increase the AI, thereby increasing the systolic hydraulic load on the heart. The novelty of the study is that Qtri is constructed using the measured aortic pressure wave to approximate its corresponding flow signal, and that calibration of Qtri is not essential in the analysis.
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- Chun-Yi Chang
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General HospitalHsin-Chu, China
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan UniversityTaipei, China
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University HospitalTaipei, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University HospitalTaipei, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University HospitalTaipei, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University HospitalTaipei, China
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan UniversityTaipei, China
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- Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University HospitalHsin-Chu, China.,Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University HospitalTaipei, China
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan UniversityTaipei, China
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Determining arterial wave transit time from a single aortic pressure pulse in rats: vascular impulse response analysis. Sci Rep 2017; 7:40998. [PMID: 28102355 PMCID: PMC5244412 DOI: 10.1038/srep40998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Arterial wave transit time (τw) in the lower body circulation is an effective biomarker of cardiovascular risk that substantially affects systolic workload imposed on the heart. This study evaluated a method for determining τw from the vascular impulse response on the basis of the measured aortic pressure and an assumed triangular flow (Qtri). The base of the unknown Qtri was constructed with a duration set equal to ejection time. The timing of the peak triangle was derived using a fourth-order derivative of the pressure waveform. Values of τws obtained using Qtri were compared with those obtained from the measure aortic flow wave (Qm). Healthy rats (n = 27), rats with chronic kidney disease (CKD; n = 22), and rats with type 1 (n = 22) or type 2 (n = 11) diabetes were analyzed. The cardiovascular conditions in the CKD rats and both diabetic groups were characterized by a decrease in τws. The following significant relation was observed (P < 0.0001): τwtriQ = −1.5709 + 1.0604 × τwmQ (r2 = 0.9641). Our finding indicates that aortic impulse response can be an effective method for the estimation of arterial τw by using a single pressure recording together with the assumed Qtri.
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Tusman G, Bohm SH, Suarez-Sipmann F. Advanced Uses of Pulse Oximetry for Monitoring Mechanically Ventilated Patients. Anesth Analg 2017; 124:62-71. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000001283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Systolic aortic pressure-time area is a useful index describing arterial wave properties in rats with diabetes. Sci Rep 2015; 5:17293. [PMID: 26620634 PMCID: PMC4664900 DOI: 10.1038/srep17293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The accurate measurement of arterial wave properties in terms of arterial wave transit time (τw) and wave reflection factor (Rf) requires simultaneous records of aortic pressure and flow signals. However, in clinical practice, it will be helpful to describe the pulsatile ventricular afterload using less-invasive parameters if possible. We investigated the possibility of systolic aortic pressure-time area (PTAs), calculated from the measured aortic pressure alone, acting as systolic workload imposed on the rat diabetic heart. Arterial wave reflections were derived using the impulse response function of the filtered aortic input impedance spectra. The cardiovascular condition in the rats with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes was characterized by (1) an elevation in PTAs; and (2) an increase in Rf and decrease in τw. We found that an inverse linear correlation between PTAs and arterial τw reached significance (τw = 38.5462 − 0.0022 × PTAs; r = 0.7708, P < 0.0001). By contrast, as the PTAs increased, the reflection intensity increased: Rf = –0.5439 + 0.0002 × PTAs; r = 0.8701; P <0 .0001. All these findings suggested that as diabetes stiffened aortas, the augmented aortic PTAs might act as a useful index describing the diabetes-related deterioration in systolic ventricular workload.
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Maron BA, Leopold JA. Emerging Concepts in the Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Part II: Neurohormonal Signaling Contributes to the Pulmonary Vascular and Right Ventricular Pathophenotype of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation 2015; 131:2079-91. [PMID: 26056345 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.006980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Bradley A Maron
- From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (B.A.M., J.A.L.); and Department of Cardiology, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA (B.A.M.)
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- From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (B.A.M., J.A.L.); and Department of Cardiology, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA (B.A.M.).
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Arterial pressure and flow wave analysis using time-domain 1-D hemodynamics. Ann Biomed Eng 2014; 43:190-206. [PMID: 25138163 PMCID: PMC4286649 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1087-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2014] [Accepted: 08/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We reviewed existing methods for analyzing, in the time domain, physical mechanisms underlying the patterns of blood pressure and flow waveforms in the arterial system. These are wave intensity analysis and separations into several types of waveforms: (i) forward- and backward-traveling, (ii) peripheral and conduit, or (iii) reservoir and excess. We assessed the physical information provided by each method and showed how to combine existing methods in order to quantify contributions to numerically generated waveforms from previous cardiac cycles and from specific regions and properties of the numerical domain: the aortic root, arterial bifurcations and tapered vessels, peripheral reflection sites, and the Windkessel function of the aorta. We illustrated our results with numerical examples involving generalized arterial stiffening in a distributed one-dimensional model or localized changes in the model parameters due to a femoral stenosis, carotid stent or abdominal aortic aneurysm.
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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) is frequently associated with multiple disorders complicating both the clinical management and the understanding of the underlying mechanisms. This review focuses on the causes and pathophysiology of HFPEF and overviews how cellular and molecular changes related to various comorbidities may influence the age-dependent and gender-dependent hemodynamic alterations of diastolic ventricular function.
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- Árpád Kovács
- Division of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, Móricz Zs. krt. 22, Debrecen 4032, Hungary
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, Móricz Zs. krt. 22, Debrecen 4032, Hungary.
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, Móricz Zs. krt. 22, Debrecen 4032, Hungary
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In vitro hemodynamic model of the arm arteriovenous circulation to study hemodynamics of native arteriovenous fistula and the distal revascularization and interval ligation procedure. J Vasc Surg 2014; 59:1410-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2013.04.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2013] [Revised: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A wave dynamics criterion for optimization of mammalian cardiovascular system. J Biomech 2014; 47:1727-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Revised: 02/13/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Pahlevan NM, Gharib M. A bio-inspired approach for the reduction of left ventricular workload. PLoS One 2014; 9:e87122. [PMID: 24475239 PMCID: PMC3901771 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of optimization criteria in the design and development of mammalians cardiovascular systems. Similarities in mammalian arterial wave reflection suggest there are certain design criteria for the optimization of arterial wave dynamics. Inspired by these natural optimization criteria, we investigated the feasibility of optimizing the aortic waves by modifying wave reflection sites. A hydraulic model that has physical and dynamical properties similar to a human aorta and left ventricle was used for a series of in-vitro experiments. The results indicate that placing an artificial reflection site (a ring) at a specific location along the aorta may create a constructive wave dynamic that could reduce LV pulsatile workload. This simple bio-inspired approach may have important implications for the future of treatment strategies for diseased aorta.
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- Niema M. Pahlevan
- Medical Engineering, Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
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- Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
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Pahlevan NM, Gharib M. Pathological wave dynamics: a postulate for sudden cardiac death in athletes. Med Hypotheses 2013; 82:64-70. [PMID: 24284063 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2012] [Revised: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 11/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Sudden death (SD) in young athletes is a shocking and disturbing event with significant societal impact. Previous studies have demonstrated that sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading medical cause of SD in athletes. Various structural and pathological cardiovascular abnormalities have identified as the underlying causes of SCD in young athletes. However, there have been reported cases of SCD in athletes with no structural or pathological cardiovascular disorders. Our proposed hypothesis in this article is that abnormalities in aortic wave dynamics and coronary wave dynamics may be responsible for SCD in these athletes. These abnormal waves-pathological waves-can act as a trigger toward cardiac death in the presence of cardiovascular diseases. These waves may initiate SCD in the absence of apparent cardiovascular abnormalities. In summary, when the aortic and coronary wave dynamics are abnormal, the myocardial oxygen demand can exceed the oxygen delivery during exercise, hence creating acute ischemia which leads to death. It is explained in this article how increased oxygen demand may be the result of pathological aortic waves while reduced oxygen delivery is mainly due to pathological coronary waves. Additionally, our pathological wave hypothesis is able to provide a plausible explanation for Commotio Cordis.
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- Niema M Pahlevan
- Medical Engineering, Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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CT signs of right ventricular dysfunction correlated with echocardiography-derived pulmonary arterial systolic pressure: incremental value of the pulmonary arterial diameter index. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2013; 29 Suppl 2:109-18. [DOI: 10.1007/s10554-013-0322-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lane AD, Wu PT, Kistler B, Fitschen P, Tomayko E, Jeong JH, Chung HR, Yan H, Ranadive SM, Phillips S, Fernhall B, Wilund K. Arterial stiffness and walk time in patients with end-stage renal disease. Kidney Blood Press Res 2013; 37:142-50. [PMID: 23653111 PMCID: PMC3711576 DOI: 10.1159/000350068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND End-stage renal disease patients experience increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease. Heart-artery interaction may be shifted, impacting blood pressure lability, and exercise tolerance. The coupling ratio consists of the ratio of indexed arterial elastance (EaI, arterial load) to ElvI, a measure of cardiac contractility or stiffness. Our purpose was to explore the relationship between elastances and functional capacity. We hypothesized that arterial stiffness (central pulse wave velocity, PWV) and elastances would be correlated to shuttle walk time. METHODS We used applanation tonometry, ultrasonography, and a shuttle walk test to evaluate our hypothesis. Spearman's correlations were used to assess relationships between variables. Block regression was also performed. RESULTS Forty-two subjects on maintenance hemodialysis participated. Average age=44±5 years, body surface area=2.01 kg/m(2). Mean EaI=4.45 and mean ElvI=6.89; the coupling ratio=0.82. Mean aortic pulse pressure=51 mmHg and PWV=9.6 m/s. PWV(r=-0.385) and EaI (r=-0.424) were significantly and inversely related to walking time while stroke volume index (SVI) was positively correlated to shuttle walk time (r=0.337), p<0.05 for all. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that, like other clinical populations, both arterial and heart function predict walking ability and represent potential targets for intervention; arterial stiffness and SVI are strongly related to shuttle walk time in patients with ESRD.
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- Abbi D Lane
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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ZHONG L, GHISTA DHANJOON, NG EYK, LIM ST, CHUA TSJ. DETERMINATION OF AORTIC PRESSURE-TIME PROFILE, ALONG WITH AORTIC STIFFNESS AND PERIPHERAL RESISTANCE. J MECH MED BIOL 2011. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219519404001193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Aortic pressure measurement is of significant clinical importance. However, the techniques require invasive approach, such as cardiac catheterization. In this study, we are providing the analysis for the aortic pressure to be determined non-invasively, as well as indicating how it can be employed to determine cardiac contractility, compliance and peripheral resistance. We record systolic and diastolic pressure during the cardiac cycle using cuff method, assumed that the systolic phase of the supra-systolic cuff signal and the diastolic phase of the sub-diastolic cuff signal most closely approximate systolic and diastolic aortic pressure, respectively. The pressure curves for the systolic phase are derived from the aortic volume-time curve. In both Ayuredic-medicine and traditional Chinese-medicine, the pressure-pulse shape is felt to provide diagnosis information concerning diseases and disorders. In this regard, a precise evaluation of the aortic pressure-time profile and correlation of its shape parameters with diseases (using traditional Chinese and Ayuredic medical knowledge-base system) would constitute a significant contribution to medicine.
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- L. ZHONG
- School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — 639798, Singapore
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- School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — 639798, Singapore
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- School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — 639798, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre, SingHealth, Mistri Wing, 3rd Hospital Ave., Singapore — 168752, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre, SingHealth, Mistri Wing, 3rd Hospital Ave., Singapore — 168752, Singapore
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Storto G, Soricelli A, Pellegrino T, Petretta M, Cuocolo A. Assessment of the arterial input function for estimation of coronary flow reserve by single photon emission computed tomography: comparison of two different approaches. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2011; 36:2034-41. [PMID: 19526233 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1186-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2009] [Accepted: 05/21/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Attempts to estimate coronary flow reserve (CFR) with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) tracers have been recently made. We compared two different methods for the estimation of CFR by SPECT imaging. METHODS Fourteen patients with coronary artery disease underwent dipyridamole 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT and intracoronary Doppler within 5 days. Myocardial blood flow (MBF) was estimated by measurement of first transit counts in the right pulmonary artery (PA) and left ventricular (LV) chamber, and myocardial counts from SPECT images. Estimated CFR was expressed as the ratio of stress MBF to rest MBF. RESULTS Rest and stress MBF obtained using first transit counts from PA were higher compared to that from LV chamber (rest: 1.05 ± 0.38 vs 0.87 ± 0.34 counts/pixel per s, respectively, p < 0.01 and stress: 1.34 ± 0.45 vs 0.91 ± 0.20 counts/pixel per s, respectively, p < 0.05). In the study vessels, CFR by Doppler was 1.39 ± 0.42, and SPECT CFR obtained using first transit counts from PA and LV chamber were 1.36 ± 0.43 and 1.16 ± 0.39, respectively (p across categories NS). A significant relationship between SPECT CFR obtained using first transit counts from PA and CFR by Doppler was found (r = 0.85, p < 0.001). No relationship between SPECT CFR obtained using first transit counts from LV chamber and CFR by intracoronary Doppler was OBSERVED (R = 0.43, P = NS). CONCLUSION SPECT-estimated CFR obtained using first transit counts from right PA is more accurate and correlates better with the results of intracoronary Doppler than estimated CFR obtained using arterial input function from LV chamber.
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Thiele RH, Nemergut EC, Lynch C. The physiologic implications of isolated alpha(1) adrenergic stimulation. Anesth Analg 2011; 113:284-96. [PMID: 21519050 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3182124c0e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Phenylephrine and methoxamine are direct-acting, predominantly α(1) adrenergic receptor (AR) agonists. To better understand their physiologic effects, we screened 463 articles on the basis of PubMed searches of "methoxamine" and "phenylephrine" (limited to human, randomized studies published in English), as well as citations found therein. Relevant articles, as well as those discovered in the peer-review process, were incorporated into this review. Both methoxamine and phenylephrine increase cardiac afterload via several mechanisms, including increased vascular resistance, decreased vascular compliance, and disadvantageous alterations in the pressure waveforms produced by the pulsatile heart. Although pure α(1) agonists increase arterial blood pressure, neither animal nor human studies have ever shown pure α(1)-agonism to produce a favorable change in myocardial energetics because of the resultant increase in myocardial workload. Furthermore, the cost of increased blood pressure after pure α(1)-agonism is almost invariably decreased cardiac output, likely due to increases in venous resistance. The venous system contains α(1) ARs, and though stimulation of α(1) ARs decreases capacitance and may transiently increase venous return, this gain may be offset by changes in afterload, venous compliance, and venous resistance. Data on the effects of α(1) stimulation in the central nervous system show conflicting changes, while experimental animal data suggest that renal blood flow is reduced by α(1)-agonists, and both animal and human data suggest that gastrointestinal perfusion may be reduced by α(1) tone.
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- Robert H Thiele
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Health System, P.O. Box 800710, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Tabima DM, Hacker TA, Chesler NC. Measuring right ventricular function in the normal and hypertensive mouse hearts using admittance-derived pressure-volume loops. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010; 299:H2069-75. [PMID: 20935149 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00805.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mice are a widely used animal model for investigating cardiovascular disease. Novel technologies have been used to quantify left ventricular function in this species, but techniques appropriate for determining right ventricular (RV) function are less well demonstrated. Detecting RV dysfunction is critical to assessing the progression of pulmonary vascular diseases such as pulmonary hypertension. We used an admittance catheter to measure pressure-volume loops in anesthetized, open-chested mice before and during vena cava occlusion. Mice exposed to chronic hypoxia for 10 days, which causes hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (HPH), were compared with control (CTL) mice. HPH resulted in a 27.9% increase in RV mass (P < 0.005), a 67.5% increase in RV systolic pressure (P < 0.005), and a 61.2% decrease in cardiac output (P < 0.05). Preload recruitable stroke work (PRSW) and slope of the maximum derivative of pressure (dP/dt(max))-end-diastolic volume (EDV) relationship increased with HPH (P < 0.05). Although HPH increased effective arterial elastance (E(a)) over fivefold (from 2.7 ± 1.2 to 16.4 ± 2.5 mmHg/μl), only a mild increase in the ventricular end-systolic elastance (E(es)) was observed. As a result, a dramatic decrease in the efficiency of ventricular-vascular coupling occurred (E(es)/E(a) decreased from 0.71 ± 0.27 to 0.35 ± 0.17; P < 0.005). Changes in cardiac reserve were evaluated by dobutamine infusion. In CTL mice, dobutamine significantly enhanced E(es) and dP/dt(max)-EDV but also increased E(a), causing a decrease in E(es)/E(a). In HPH mice, slight but nonsignificant decreases in E(es), PRSW, dP/dt(max)-EDV, and E(a) were observed. Thus 10 days of HPH resulted in RV hypertrophy, ventricular-vascular decoupling, and a mild decrease in RV contractile reserve. This study demonstrates the feasibility of obtaining RV pressure-volume measurements in mice. These measurements provide insight into ventricular-vascular interactions healthy and diseased states.
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- Diana M Tabima
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1609, USA
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Physical stiffening of the large arteries is the central paradigm of vascular aging. Indeed, stiffening in the larger central arterial system, such as the aortic tree, significantly contributes to cardiovascular diseases in older individuals and is positively associated with systolic hypertension, coronary artery disease, stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation, which are the leading causes of mortality in the developed countries and also in the developing world as estimated in 2010 by World Health Organizations. Thus, better, less invasive and more accurate measures of arterial stiffness have been developed, which prove useful as diagnostic indices, pathophysiological markers and predictive indicators of disease. This article presents a review of the structural determinants of vascular stiffening, its pathophysiologic determinants and its implications for vascular research and medicine. A critical discussion of new techniques for assessing vascular stiffness is also presented.
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Champion HC, Michelakis ED, Hassoun PM. Comprehensive invasive and noninvasive approach to the right ventricle-pulmonary circulation unit: state of the art and clinical and research implications. Circulation 2009; 120:992-1007. [PMID: 19752350 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.106.674028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 340] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Hunter C Champion
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, NW628 Montefiore Hospital, 3459 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
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Sanz J, Kariisa M, Dellegrottaglie S, Prat-González S, Garcia MJ, Fuster V, Rajagopalan S. Evaluation of pulmonary artery stiffness in pulmonary hypertension with cardiac magnetic resonance. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2009; 2:286-95. [PMID: 19356573 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2008] [Revised: 08/04/2008] [Accepted: 08/20/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate indexes of pulmonary artery (PA) stiffness in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) using same-day cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and right heart catheterization (RHC). BACKGROUND Pulmonary artery stiffness is increased in the presence of PH, although the relationship to PH severity has not been fully characterized. METHODS Both CMR and RHC were performed on the same day in 94 patients with known or suspected PH. According to the RHC, patients were classified as having no PH (n = 13), exercise-induced PH (EIPH) only (n = 6), or PH at rest (n = 75). On CMR, phase-contrast images were obtained perpendicular to the pulmonary trunk. From CMR and RHC data, PA areas and indexes of stiffness (pulsatility, compliance, capacitance, distensibility, elastic modulus, and the pressure-independent stiffness index beta) were measured at rest. RESULTS All quantified indexes showed increased PA stiffness in patients with PH at rest in comparison with those with EIPH or no PH. Despite the absence of significant differences in baseline pressures, patients with EIPH had lower median compliance and capacitance than patients with no PH: 15 (interquartile range: 9 to 19.8) mm2/mm Hg versus 8.4 (interquartile range: 6 to 10.3) mm2/mm Hg, and 5.2 (interquartile range: 4.4 to 6.3) mm3/mm Hg versus 3.7 (interquartile range: 3.1 to 4.1) mm3/mm Hg, respectively (p < 0.05). The different measurements of PA stiffness, including stiffness index beta, showed significant correlations with PA pressures (r2 = 0.27 to 0.73). Reduced PA pulsatility (<40%) detected the presence of PH at rest with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 63%. CONCLUSIONS Pulmonary artery stiffness increases early in the course of PH (even when PH is detectable only with exercise and before overt pressure elevations occur at rest). These observations suggest a potential contributory role of PA stiffness in the development and progression of PH.
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- Javier Sanz
- Clinical Cardiac MR/CT Program, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA.
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Olsen MH, Wachtell K, Neland K, Bella JN, Rokkedal J, Dige-Petersen H, Ibsen H. Losartan but not atenolol reduce carotid artery hypertrophy in essential hypertension. A LIFE substudy. Blood Press 2005; 14:177-83. [PMID: 16036498 DOI: 10.1080/08037050510034185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND We wanted to investigate whether treatment with losartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker, induced regression of carotid artery hypertrophy as compared to the beta-receptor blocker, atenolol. METHODS In 45 patients recruited for the LIFE Study with stage II-III hypertension and ECG left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, we measured blood pressure, intima-media thickness (IMT) and lumen in the common carotid arteries by ultrasound, and minimal forearm vascular resistance (MFVR) by plethysmography, after 2 weeks of placebo treatment and after 1, 2 and 3 years of anti-hypertensive treatment with either atenolol- or losartan-based regimens. We measured the same parameters in 26 normal subjects matched for age and gender. RESULTS The patients had as compared to normotensive controls higher IMT (0.87 vs 0.76 mm, p = 0.001) and intima-media cross-sectional area (IMA) (19.7 vs 15.5 mm2, p<0.001). Systolic and diastolic blood pressures were reduced to the same degree in patients treated with losartan as compared to atenolol. However, IMA decreased significantly only in patients treated with losartan (19.2 vs 17.6 mm2, p = 0.001) and the average relative decrease in IMA during the 3 years of treatment was significantly higher in patients treated with losartan as compared to atenolol (-7.4 vs -2.0%, p<0.05). CONCLUSION Patients with hypertension and LV hypertrophy had hypertrophy of the common carotid arteries. Losartan, but not atenolol, induced regression of this hypertrophy. Because carotid artery hypertrophy has been associated with strokes, our findings may explain the lower incidence of strokes in the LIFE study in patients treated with losartan as compared to atenolol.
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- Michael H Olsen
- Departemtn fo Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Chassot PG, van der Linden P, Zaugg M, Mueller XM, Spahn DR. Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: physiology and anaesthetic management †. Br J Anaesth 2004; 92:400-13. [PMID: 14970136 DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeh064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Increasing interest is being shown in beating heart (off-pump) coronary artery surgery (OPCAB) because, compared with operations performed with cardiopulmonary bypass, OPCAB surgery may be associated with decreased postoperative morbidity and reduced total costs. Its appears to produce better results than conventional surgery in high-risk patient populations, elderly patients, and those with compromised cardiac function or coagulation disorders. Recent improvements in the technique have resulted in the possibility of multiple-vessel grafting in all coronary territories, with a graft patency comparable with conventional surgery. During beating-heart surgery, anaesthetists face two problems: first, the maintenance of haemodynamic stability during heart enucleation necessary for accessing each coronary artery; and second, the management of intraoperative myocardial ischaemia when coronary flow must be interrupted during grafting. The anaesthetic technique is less important than adequate management of these two major constraints. However, experimental and recent clinical data suggest that volatile anaesthetics have a marked cardioprotective effect against ischaemia, and might be specifically indicated. OPCAB surgery requires team work between anaesthetists and surgeons, who must be aware of each other's constraints. Some surgical aspects of the operation are reviewed along with physiological and anaesthetic data.
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- P-G Chassot
- Departments of Anaesthesiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV), CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Olsen MH, Hjerkinn E, Wachtell K, Høieggen A, Bella JN, Nesbitt SD, Fossum E, Kjeldsen SE, Julius S, Ibsen H. Are left ventricular mass, geometry and function related to vascular changes and/or insulin resistance in long-standing hypertension? ICARUS: a LIFE substudy. J Hum Hypertens 2003; 17:305-11. [PMID: 12756402 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Vascular hypertrophy and insulin resistance have been associated with abnormal left ventricular (LV) geometry in population studies. We wanted to investigate the influence of vascular hypertrophy and insulin resistance on LV hypertrophy and its function in patients with hypertension. In 89 patients with essential hypertension and electrocardiographic LV hypertrophy, we measured blood pressure; insulin sensitivity by hyperinsulinaemic euglucaemic clamp; minimal forearm vascular resistance (MFVR) by plethysmography; intima-media cross-sectional area of the common carotid arteries (IMA) by ultrasound; and LV mass, relative wall thickness (RWT), systolic function and diastolic filling by echocardiography after two weeks of placebo treatment. LV mass index correlated to IMA/height (r=0.36, P=0.001), serum insulin (r=-0.25, P<0.05), plasma glucose (r=-0.34, P<0.01), and showed a tendency towards a correlation to insulin sensitivity (r=0.21, P=0.051), but was unrelated to MFVR. Deceleration time of early diastolic transmitral flow positively correlated to IMA/height (r=0.30, P<0.01). The ratio between early and atrial LV filling peak flow velocity negatively correlated to MFVR(men) (r=-0.30, P<0.05). Endocardial and midwall systolic LV function were not related to vascular hypertrophy, plasma glucose, serum insulin or insulin sensitivity. In conclusion, insulin resistance was not related to LV hypertrophy or reduced LV function. However, high thickness of the common carotid arteries was associated with LV hypertrophy and high deceleration time of early diastolic transmitral flow. High MFVR was associated with low ratio between early and atrial LV filling peak flow velocity. This may suggest that systemic vascular hypertrophy contributes to abnormal diastolic LV relaxation in patients with hypertension and electrocardiographic LV hypertrophy.
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- M H Olsen
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Olsen MH, Wachtell K, Hermann KL, Frandsen E, Dige-Petersen H, Rokkedal J, Devereux RB, Ibsen H. Is cardiovascular remodeling in patients with essential hypertension related to more than high blood pressure? A LIFE substudy. Losartan Intervention For Endpoint-Reduction in Hypertension. Am Heart J 2002; 144:530-7. [PMID: 12228792 DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2002.124863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Blocking the renin-aldosterone-angiotensin II system has been hypothesized to induce blood pressure-dependent as well as blood pressure-independent regression of cardiovascular hypertrophy. However, the relative influence of elevated blood pressure (BP) and various neurohormonal factors on cardiovascular remodeling in hypertension is unclear. METHODS In 43 untreated patients with hypertension with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, we measured relative wall thickness and left ventricular mass index by echocardiography and by magnetic resonance imaging (n = 32), intima-media cross-sectional area, and distensibility of the common carotid arteries by ultrasound, media/lumen ratio of isolated subcutaneous resistance arteries by myography, and median 24-hour systolic BP (n = 40), serum insulin, and plasma levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine, renin, angiotensin II, aldosterone, and endothelin. RESULTS In multiple regression analyses, left ventricular mass index by echocardiography (R2 = 0.14, P <.05) and by magnetic resonance imaging (R2 = 0.32, P =.001) were associated with 24-hour systolic BP, whereas relative wall thickness was associated with plasma epinephrine (R2 = 0.12, P <.05) and aldosterone (R2 = 0.10, P <.05). Intima-media cross-sectional area/height was associated with 24-hour systolic BP (beta = 0.40) and plasma epinephrine (beta = 0.43) (adjusted R2 = 0.32, P <.001), whereas carotid distensibility was associated with 24-hour systolic BP (beta = 0.40) and plasma angiotensin II (beta = -0.41) (adjusted R2 = 0.30, P <.001). Media/lumen ratio in subcutaneous resistance arteries was associated with plasma epinephrine (R2 = 0.22, P <.01). CONCLUSION Apart from being associated with a high BP burden, cardiovascular remodeling was associated with high levels of circulating epinephrine, aldosterone, as well as angiotensin II, suggesting a beneficial effect above and beyond the effect of BP reduction when using antihypertensive agents blocking the receptors of these neurohormonal factors.
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- Michael Hecht Olsen
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark.
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Hayward CS, Kraidly M, Webb CM, Collins P. Assessment of endothelial function using peripheral waveform analysis: a clinical application. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002; 40:521-8. [PMID: 12142121 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01991-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The study was done to determine whether radial artery applanation tonometry can be used as a noninvasive method of assessing global endothelial function. BACKGROUND; It is known that beta(2)-receptor stimulation results in endothelial release of nitric oxide. Furthermore, for over a century glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) has been known to markedly affect the arterial pressure waveform, even in the absence of significant blood pressure (BP) changes. Therefore, it was hypothesized that the change in the peripheral pressure waveform, as measured using tonometry and quantified using the augmentation index (AIx) and in response to Salbutamol (Salb), would allow assessment of global endothelial function. METHODS The study contained three parts. In the first study, Salb (400 microg) was administered to 11 healthy subjects via inhalation after either intravenous N-omega-nitro-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) (3 mg/kg over 5 min) or control solution (normal saline) in the supine, rested, fasted condition. The BP, heart rate and waveform responses were recorded each 5 min following Salb for 20 min. Next, GTN was given and responses recorded 5 min later. In the second study, both the reproducibility of Salb and the GTN responses were assessed in 9 subjects studied twice on separate days. In the third study, the Salb and GTN responses of 12 subjects with angiographic coronary artery disease (CAD) were compared with 10 age-matched control subjects with no atherosclerotic risk factors. RESULTS After control infusion, AIx decreased following Salb, from 50.8 +/- 4.3% to 44.8 +/- 4.2%, a change of -11.8 +/- 3.7%, p < 0.01. After L-NMMA, AIx did not significantly change following Salb (54.2 +/- 5.1% vs. 52.9 +/- 5.3%, -2.0 +/- 3.1%). The GTN-induced decreases in AIx were similar after either infusion (35.1 +/- 3.3% vs. 36.5 +/- 3.3%). Reproducibility of Salb-induced changes in AIx between studies performed on separate days was good (r = 0.80, p < 0.01). Salb-induced changes in AIx in CAD patients were significantly less compared to control subjects (-2.4 +/- 1.9% vs. -13.2 +/- 2.4%, respectively, p < 0.002). The GTN-induced changes were not significantly different (-27.6 +/- 4.2 vs. -38.9 +/- 4.4%, p = 0.07). CONCLUSIONS The peripheral arterial pressure waveform is sensitive to beta(2)-stimulation. Changes are related to nitric oxide release, are reproducible and can distinguish between clinical subject groups. Arterial waveform changes following Salb may thus provide a noninvasive method of measuring "global" arterial endothelial function.
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Fetics B, Nevo E, Chen CH, Kass DA. Parametric model derivation of transfer function for noninvasive estimation of aortic pressure by radial tonometry. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 1999; 46:698-706. [PMID: 10356876 DOI: 10.1109/10.764946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Aortic pressure can be estimated noninvasively by applying a transfer function (TF) to radial tonometry signals. This study compares the performance of prior approaches, based on Fourier transform and inverted aortic-to-radial model, with direct radial-to-aortic autoregressive exogenous (ARX) model. Simultaneous invasive aortic pressure and radial tonometry pressure were recorded during rest in 39 patients in the supine position. Individual radial-aortic TF's were estimated from 20 patients, and the average TF was used to predict aortic pressures in the remaining 19 patients. The direct average TF yielded accurate aortic systolic pressure estimation (error 0.4 +/- 2.9 mmHg) and good reproduction of the aortic pressure waveform (root mean squared error 2.2 +/- 0.9 mmHg). The inverted reverse TF (aortic radial) yielded comparable results, while the Fourier-based TF had worse performance. Individual direct TF provided improved predictive accuracy only for indexes which are based on higher frequency components of the waveform (augmentation index, systolic time period). An ARX average TF can be used to accurately estimate central aortic pressure waveform parameters from noninvasive radial pulse tracings, and its performance is superior to previous techniques.
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- B Fetics
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- C V Leier
- Division of Cardiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
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Ohtsuka S, Kakihana M, Watanabe H, Sugishita Y. Chronically decreased aortic distensibility causes deterioration of coronary perfusion during increased left ventricular contraction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1994; 24:1406-14. [PMID: 7930267 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(94)90127-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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OBJECTIVES This study investigated the long-term effects of decreased aortic distensibility on the heart in relation to coronary perfusion. BACKGROUND Aortic distensibility is decreased in patients with atherosclerosis and hypertension and in the elderly. However, the effect of a long-term decrease in aortic distensibility on coronary perfusion has not been fully investigated. METHODS Twelve anesthetized dogs underwent thoracotomy and were allocated to two groups: Group I included six control dogs with a normal aorta; Group II included six dogs with decreased aortic distensibility produced by banding the descending aorta. After 4 to 6 weeks, the dogs had a second operation to measure coronary artery flow and transmural flow distribution. Because the effect of decreased aortic distensibility on coronary perfusion may be affected by ventricular contractility, measurements were performed at baseline and during increased ventricular contraction induced by isoproterenol infusion. RESULTS At baseline, arterial compliance was reduced by 35% in Group II, but there was no change in total mean arterial resistance. Hemodynamic variables, regional wall motion and coronary flow were also similar in both groups. However, during isoproterenol infusion, coronary flow increased more in Group II than in Group I (p < 0.01), and the coronary flow reserve ratio (maximal peak hyperemic flow divided by rest flow) decreased more in Group II than in Group I (mean [+/- SD] 1.9 +/- 0.4 vs. 2.4 +/- 0.3, p < 0.05). Moreover, although the transmural flow distribution was similar in the two groups at baseline, during isoproterenol infusion the endocardial flow increased less in Group II than in Group I (p < 0.05), and the endocardial/epicardial flow ratio was significantly decreased in Group II compared with Group I (mean [+/- SD] 0.70 +/- 0.18 vs. 0.99 +/- 0.22, p < 0.05). The subendocardial electrocardiogram showed ST segment elevation during isoproterenol infusion in Group II (p < 0.05) but not in Group I. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that during increased ventricular contraction, chronically decreased aortic distensibility contributes to a further decrease in the coronary flow reserve ratio, impairs endocardial blood flow and may induce subendocardial ischemia even in the absence of coronary artery stenosis.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan
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De Lazzari C, Ferrari G, Mimmo R, Tosti G, Ambrosi D. A desk-top computer model of the circulatory system for heart assistance simulation: effect of an LVAD on energetic relationships inside the left ventricle. Med Eng Phys 1994; 16:97-103. [PMID: 8205368 DOI: 10.1016/1350-4533(94)90022-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The study of the interaction between a pneumatic left ventricle assist device (LVAD), driven with different control strategies, and the cardiovascular system is the subject of this paper. It is performed by a modular numerical model of the cardiovascular system connected to a numerical model of the LVAD. The circulatory system is simulated by a lumped parameter numerical model. The ventricle is represented by a time-varying elastance model to reproduce the Starling law of the heart. The effect of the LVAD on the cardiovascular system is evaluated, on the left ventricle alone, by an open-loop circuit consisting of the models of the ventricle, the LVAD and the arterial tree. The analysis is performed in terms of energy variables (such as external work and oxygen consumption and cardiac mechanical efficiency versus control strategy. The LVAD is driven by different control strategies: a fixed heart rate (with different delays from the onset of the natural ventricle contraction) and a variable heart rate.
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- C De Lazzari
- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche CNR, Rome, Italy
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Miyashita H, Ikeda U, Tsuruya Y, Sekiguchi H, Shimada K, Yaginuma T. Noninvasive evaluation of the influence of aortic wave reflection on left ventricular ejection during auxotonic contraction. Heart Vessels 1994; 9:30-9. [PMID: 8113156 DOI: 10.1007/bf01744493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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To develop a noninvasive method for evaluating the influence of aortic wave reflection on left ventricular ejection, the carotid pulse wave and the pulsed Doppler wave in the left ventricular outflow tract were evaluated in 35 patients. Agreement between the pulsed Doppler waveform and the aortic flow velocity contour (obtained invasively) was verified by Fourier analysis. The carotid augmentation index was used to determine the magnitude of the aortic pressure wave reflection. A Doppler index named "DR1/3" was defined as the ratio of deceleration at the first one-third in the deceleration phase to the peak flow velocity of the pulsed Doppler. This index was validated by close correlation with the carotid augmentation index (n = 48, r = 0.70, P < 0.01). Both nitrates and nifedipine induced a significant decrease in DR1/3 (indicating an increase in left ventricular ejection flow) in relation to a reduction of the reflected pressure wave. The new noninvasive index, DR1/3, is useful in evaluating the influence of aortic wave reflection as part of the left ventricular afterload and in assessing the benefit of treatment aimed at reducing wave reflection.
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- H Miyashita
- Department of Cardiology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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Young ST, Wang WK, Chang LS, Kuo TS. The filter properties of the arterial beds of organs in rats. ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 1992; 145:401-6. [PMID: 1529726 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1992.tb09381.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The frequency properties of arterial beds in organs were studied by temporarily ligating the renal, the gastric, the splenic or the superior mesenteric arteries of rats. Blood-pressure waves of the tail arteries were recorded before and during the ligations, and were analysed by Fourier's transformation. Their frequency spectra have been found to change profiles following specific patterns with the ligations of different arteries. The results were significant with regard to the frequency selectivities of the organic arterial beds. Such frequency properties can be clearly explained when the circulation system is viewed as an electrical circuit network in which the organic arterial beds work as filters.
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- S T Young
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Yang-Ming Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Ferrari G, De Lazzari C, Mimmo R, Tosti G, Ambrosi D. A modular numerical model of the cardiovascular system for studying and training in the field of cardiovascular physiopathology. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 1992; 14:91-107. [PMID: 1564928 DOI: 10.1016/0141-5425(92)90014-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A modular numerical model of the cardiovascular system has been developed to reproduce the most important circulatory phenomena in terms of pressure and volume relationships. It is an easy tool to use, designed to be used with a friendly approach on any IBM or compatible personal computer: it offers a wide selection of graphical and numerical outputs and can be rearranged easily for a particular experiment. A set of subroutines related to different circulatory phenomena has been developed; they can be assembled easily together and communicate with each other by two variables. A full description of the existing subroutines is presented in this paper with three different application examples resulting from the rearrangement of the existing software modules: the first concerns the behaviour of the natural ventricle model itself and can be regarded as a ventricle stand-alone characterization test in terms of preload and afterload sensitivities, the second is related to the use of a pneumatic ventricle instead of the model of the natural ventricle, and the third is a full model of the cardiocirculatory system.
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- G Ferrari
- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche CNR, Rome, Italy
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Binkley PF, Van Fossen DB, Nunziata E, Unverferth DV, Leier CV. Influence of positive inotropic therapy on pulsatile hydraulic load and ventricular-vascular coupling in congestive heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1990; 15:1127-35. [PMID: 2312969 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(90)90253-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The aortic input impedance spectrum provides a description of the total hydraulic load imposed on the left ventricle and may be used to assess the coupling of the ventricle to the vasculature. The adaptation of the vasculature to positive inotropic intervention was examined in 10 patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy to test the hypothesis that increased myocardial contractility is matched by complementary changes in aortic impedance that optimize ventricular-vascular coupling and maximize power transfer to the circulation. High fidelity intravascular recordings of aortic pressure and flow were obtained at baseline study and during infusion of dobutamine to derive the aortic input impedance spectrum. In eight patients in whom increased staged infusion of dobutamine resulted in a significant increase in stroke volume (22.3 +/- 14.5 ml/beat increase over baseline), the significant (p less than 0.05) increase in the maximum of the first derivative left ventricular pressure pulse (dP/dt) was accompanied by significant decreases in characteristic impedance of the aorta (138 +/- 88 to 92 +/- 44 dyne.s.cm-5) wave reflection index (238 +/- 144 to 109 +/- 59 dyne.s.cm-5), and low frequency moduli of impedance. Effective positive inotropic therapy with dobutamine in the setting of congestive heart failure is accompanied by complementary changes in the aortic impedance spectrum, which represent a matching of impedance to the increased contractile state of the ventricle and facilitation of ventricular-vascular coupling.
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- P F Binkley
- Department of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus
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Latson TW, Hunter WC, Katoh N, Sagawa K. Effect of nitroglycerin on aortic impedance, diameter, and pulse-wave velocity. Circ Res 1988; 62:884-90. [PMID: 3129207 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.62.5.884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The effects of an intravenous infusion of 1 microgram/kg/min nitroglycerin were studied on systemic arterial properties in nine acutely instrumented dogs. Aortic impedance and pulse-wave velocity were calculated from measured pressure and flow signals collected during random ventricular pacing. Central aortic diameter was simultaneously determined with ultrasonic dimension crystals. Mean blood pressure was maintained constant to avoid the confounding effects of passive, pressure-induced changes in vascular properties. Nitroglycerin both reduced the amplitude of peripheral vascular reflections and delayed the return of these reflections to the aortic root. This reflection delay was manifested as a consistent leftward shift in both impedance modulus and phase. The magnitude of this reflection delay could not be entirely accounted for on the basis of the measured changes in average pulse-wave velocity along the aorta.
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- T W Latson
- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Arterial wave reflection may adversely influence both left ventricular afterload and ejection performance. Therefore, using multisensor catheter manometers, we derived wave reflection indexes from ascending aortic pressure and velocity recordings in 17 subjects with clinical heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and 11 control subjects free of detectable cardiovascular disease. Patients were studied at rest as well as during submaximal supine bicycle exercise. Eight of the subjects with cardiomyopathy were also studied during infusion of nitroprusside at rest and on exercise. Reflection indexes decreased on exercise in normal subjects but did not consistently do so in the subjects with heart failure. In both groups the reflected wave on exercise returned earlier during the ejection period. Infusion of nitroprusside at rest in subjects with heart failure had dramatic, and significant, effects on the magnitude and timing of arterial wave reflections. The effect of nitroprusside on reflection magnitude persisted on exercise, although the timing of the reflected wave was disadvantageous. The systemic arterial response to exercise in heart failure is characterized by a smaller change in wave reflection indexes in spite of a comparable decrease in systemic vascular resistance. Nitroprusside diminishes the potentially adverse impact of wave reflections by decreasing the magnitude of the reflected wave and altering its timing. Additional dose titration studies are necessary to fully assess the benefits of pharmacologic vasodilation during exercise.
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Brin KP, Yin FC. Effect of nitroprusside on wave reflections in patients with heart failure. Ann Biomed Eng 1984; 12:135-50. [PMID: 6507963 DOI: 10.1007/bf02584227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The relationship between wave reflections and ventricular-vascular coupling has been the subject of considerable speculation. Since we have previously shown that low-dose nitroprusside infusion improved ventricular-vascular coupling (as evidenced by increases in cardiac output and in aortic and pulmonary arterial total external power) in patients with severe left ventricular failure and secondary pulmonary hypertension, we chose to examine the changes in their aortic and pulmonary arterial wave reflections in this study. Wave reflection indexes examined included calculated backward and forward pressure waves and the ratio of their magnitudes (reflection factor), the reflection coefficient spectrum obtained by taking the ratios of the corresponding Fourier harmonics of the backward and forward waves, two terminal reflection coefficients calculated as gamma t = (R - Zc)/(R + Zc), where Z is characteristic impedance and R is either total resistance or vascular resistance, and the difference between the maximum and minimum impedance moduli for frequencies of 4 to 15 Hz. In the systemic vasculature, nitroprusside produced large reductions in the elevated vascular resistances and decreased aortic reflections as indexed by the reflection factor and by both terminal reflection coefficients. In contrast, however, no significant changes were found in the pulmonary artery wave reflection indexes despite large reductions in the pulmonary resistances.
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