Open AccessIncrease in the Arterial Velocity Pulse Index of Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease
Author(s) -
Naotaka Murata,
Kazuki Shiina,
Jun Yamashita,
Nobuhiro Tanaka,
Taishiro Chikamori,
Akira Yamashina,
Hirofumi Tomiyama
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pulse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2235-8676
pISSN - 2235-8668
DOI - 10.1159/000486162
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , arterial stiffness , peripheral , arterial disease , odds ratio , confidence interval , pulse wave velocity , blood pressure , logistic regression , brachial artery , vascular disease , ankle , pulse pressure , surgery
Recently, a simple parameter calculated from the brachial pressure waveform recorded using an oscillometric device (arterial velocity pulse index [AVI]: ratio of the forward/reflected pressure wave amplitudes) has become available to assess the pathophysiological abnormalities associated with vascular damage. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) represents one of the disease entities associated with the advanced stages of atherosclerotic vascular damage. The present study was conducted to examine whether an increase in the AVI might be influenced by the presence of PAD.