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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 276: H1078-H1085, 1999;
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Vol. 276, Issue 3, H1078-H1085, March 1999

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Aortic pressure-diameter relationship assessed by intravascular ultrasound: experimental validation in dogs

Stefan E. Hardt1, Armin Just2, Raffi Bekeredjian1, Wolfgang Kübler1, Hartmut R. Kirchheim2, and Helmut F. Kuecherer1

1 Department of Cardiology, Ruprecht-Karls Universität, 69115 Heidelberg; and 2 I. Physiologisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls Universität, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has emerged as an important diagnostic method for evaluating vessel diameter and vessel wall motion. To evaluate the validity of IVUS in assessing changes in the pressure-diameter relationship we compared measurements of abdominal aortic diameters derived from IVUS with those simultaneously obtained at the same site using implanted sonomicrometers in five chronically instrumented conscious dogs and in seven acutely instrumented anesthetized dogs. Five hundred eighty beats were analyzed to obtain peak systolic and end-diastolic diameters and to calculate aortic compliance at different blood pressure levels induced either by an aortic pneumatic cuff or by intravenous injections of nitroglycerin or norepinephrine. IVUS agreed closely with sonomicrometer measurements at different blood pressure levels. However, IVUS slightly but significantly underestimated aortic diameters by 0.6 ± 0.7 mm for systolic diameters (P < 0.001) and by 0.7 ± 0.6 mm for diastolic diameters (P < 0.001) compared with the sonomicrometer measurements. We conclude that IVUS is a feasible and reliable method to measure dynamic changes in aortic dimensions and has the potential to provide ready access to assess aortic compliance in humans.

aortic compliance; vascular ultrasound


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