PROPAGATION VELOCITY AND REFLECTION OF PRESSURE WAVES IN THE CANINE CORONARY-ARTERY
PROPAGATION VELOCITY AND REFLECTION OF PRESSURE WAVES IN THE CANINE CORONARY-ARTERY
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpheart.1979.237.4.h469
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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RENEMAN, RS
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作者:
ARTS, T;KRUGER, RTI;RENEMAN, RS
The pressure wave velocity in the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery (LADC) of the dog was measured by determining the delay time between pressure pulses along this artery. This method can only be applied if reflections of the pressure wave distal to the sites of pressure measurement are insignificant. From araldite casts of the coronary arteries the following relation between the diameter proximal to (dprox) and distal to (ddist 1, ddist 2) a bifurcation was found: .**GRAPHIC**. = .**GRAPHIC**. + .**GRAPHIC**. indicating that reflections at a bifurcation are minimal. In dogs reflections were studied by inducing during diastole a pressure pulse in the aorta and measuring pressure and volume flow proximal to and pressure distal to a segment of the LADC at various levels of the coronary peripheral resistance. Reflection of high-frequency components (> 7 Hz) was insignificant, allowing application of the method for measuring the wave-front velocity, which is insensitive to low-frequency reflection. At a pressure in the LADC of 13.3 kPa this velocity was 8.6 .+-. 1.4 m/s (mean .+-. SD). The calculated dynamic cross-sectional stiffness (.DELTA.P/(.DELTA.A/A)) of the LADC was 97 .+-. 11 kPa (mean .+-. SE) at an arterial pressure of 13.3 kPa.