Pulpal, Microvascular, and Tissue Pressure
Pulpal, Microvascular, and Tissue Pressure
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牙髓、微血管和组织压力
DOI:
10.1177/002203458506400414
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
Karin J. Heyeraas
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作者:
Karin J. Heyeraas
The two subjects of this paper, the microvascular and the tissue pressure, represent quite different topics. The microvascular pressure is the blood pressure within the different vessel segments, i.e., in the arterioles, capillaries, and venules. Changes in arteriolar and venular blood pressure are the result of altered vascular resistance in these vessel segments; thus, these changes in~uence blood flow. The magnitude of the capillary blood pressure IS also determined by the preand post-capillary vascular resistance. The capillaries themselves, however, do not participate in blood flow regulation; they are fairly rigid tubes with a relatively constant vascular resistance. The capillary pressure is one of the parameters in the Starling equation used for measuring transcapillary fluid balance. Thu.s, changes in capillary blood pressure will influence th~ transc~pil lary fluid exchange, while blood pressure changes 10 artenoles and venules will cause changes in pulpal blood fl?w. ., . The second theme, pulpal tissue pressure (or interstitial fluid pressure, Pi)' concerns the hydrostatic pressure exert.ed by the interstitial fluid in the extravascular pulpal tissue. The tissue pressure, like the capillary pressure, is one of the factors in t~e Starli~g equation and does, therefore, take part in the transcapillary fl~ld balance. On the other hand, tissue pressure may also secondanly affect blood flow due to the low compliance environment of the pulp. Thus, increased tissue pressure will tend to compress the soft-walled venules, thereby raising venular resistance and reducing blood flow, and vice versa. Because of a bewildering variety of terms previously us~d in the literature, such as pulp pressure, tooth tissue pressure,. mtrapulpal pressure, and pulp fluid pressure, it seems appropnate to define the present term "pulpal tissue pressure" (Pi)' The present pulpal tissue pressure is the interstitial fluid pressure measured by fluid-equilibration techniques. When these methods are used, the pulpal interstitium is connected to a low-compliance manometer through a fluid-filled tube. Pi will equal the hydrostatic pressure in the free-fluid phase in the interstitium of the pulp.