BILATERAL INDIRECT AND DIRECT ARTERIAL PRESSURES
BILATERAL INDIRECT AND DIRECT ARTERIAL PRESSURES
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.22.3.419
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发表时间:
1960-01-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
HINES, EA
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作者:
HARRISON, EG;ROTH, GM;HINES, EA
Bilateral determinations of the blood pressures were made nonsimultaneously and simultaneously by the indirect method under basal conditions in 447 patients. The results indicate that bilateral determinations of blood pressure must be performed simultaneously on patients being examined for possible inequalities of blood pressure. Bilateral differences in blood pressure obtained by the simultaneous indirect and simultaneous direct methods in 14 normal subjects and 53 selected patients were compared. Observed differences in bilateral pressure were characterized by their inconstancy and lack of agreement with subsequent measurements when studied by both the direct and indirect methods, which apparently separates them from those due to altered hemodynamics from pathologic conditions of the aortic arch or its tributaries. Bilateral differences of blood pressure are of clinical importance when they are great and reproducible by the direct and indirect methods. One case of extreme obesity and one of advanced arteriosclerosis had pseudohypertension which was detected in this study. A slight increase in the incidence of bilateral differences in the indirect blood pressure was found in a group of patients whose blood pressures were measured in the supine and then the sitting position. A slight increase of the incidence of bilateral differences was found at higher levels of blood pressure by comparing the pressures of nonhypertensive and hypertensive patients and of hypertensive patients before and during treatment with antihypertensive drugs. Bilateral inequalities of blood pressure did not appear to be related to the age or sex of the subjects. Differences in arm circumference or right- or left-handedness did not appear to influence these inequalities. Bilaterally simultaneous, indirect measurements of blood pressure should be carried out on patients with hypertension who will be treated with antihypertensive drugs. Bilateral direct measurements may be used to verify the existence of inequality of blood pressures detected by the indirect method and to determine the correct pressure to be followed. This is particularly important in patients being screened for pheochromocytomas, since such differences may produce false-positive results.