Affiliation:
1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
2. Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine,
Abstract
To demonstrate axial artery motion during the cardiac cycle, the common carotid arteries (CCA) of 10 pigs were exposed and equipped with piezoelectric crystals sutured onto the artery as axial position detectors. An echo-tracking system was used to simultaneously measure the CCA diameter. For each animal, data for pressure, length, and diameter were collected at a frequency of 457 Hz. At a mean pulse pressure of 33 ± 8 mmHg, the mean systolodiastolic length difference was 0.3 ± 0.01 mm for a mean arterial segment of 11.35 ± 1.25 mm. Systolic and diastolic diameters were 4.1 ± 0.3 and 3.9 ± 0.2 mm, respectively. The examined CCA segment displayed a mean axial systolic shortening of 2.7%. This study clearly demonstrates, for the first time, that the length of a segment of the CCA changes during the cardiac cycle and that this movement is inversely correlated with pulse pressure. It is also apparent that the segmental axial strain is significantly smaller than the diameter variation during the cardiac cycle and that the impact of the axial strain for compliance computation should be further evaluated.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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