Underestimation of Vasodilator Effects of Nitroglycerin by Upper Limb Blood Pressure

Author:

Takazawa Kenji1,Tanaka Nobuhiro1,Takeda Kazuhiro1,Kurosu Fujio1,Ibukiyama Chiharu1

Affiliation:

1. From the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical College.

Abstract

Abstract To determine why upper limb blood pressure measurement underestimates the vasodilator effects of nitroglycerin on lowering ascending aortic systolic pressure, we studied 24 patients (58±11 years, mean±SD). Ascending aortic pressure and radial artery pulse calibrated by cuff blood pressure measurement at the brachial artery were recorded simultaneously before and 5 minutes after sublingual administration of 0.3 mg nitroglycerin. Waves were analyzed by a signal processor, and the fourth derivative wave was used to find the early (S1) and late (S2) systolic shoulders (S1 corresponds to the second zero crossing and S2 to the third zero crossing). Before nitroglycerin administration, maximal systolic pressure in the ascending aorta (141±21 mm Hg) coincided with the late systolic peak in all patients, and in most patients (21 of 24) maximal systolic pressure in the radial artery (140±19 mm Hg) coincided with the early systolic peak. Maximal systolic pressure decreased more in the ascending aorta than in the radial artery (22±13 and 11±11 mm Hg, respectively; P <.001). However, the reduction in the shoulder of late systolic pressure in the radial artery (24±13 mm Hg) clearly indicated the reduction in maximal systolic pressure (late systolic peak) in the ascending aorta. The augmentation index of the ratio of the height of late systolic pressure to early systolic pressure fell proportionally ( r =.74, P <.001) in the radial artery (from 0.88±0.13 to 0.60±0.11) and in the ascending aorta (from 1.57±0.25 to 1.26±0.24), which indicated the reduction in late systolic pressures. These data suggest that ordinary peripheral artery blood pressure measurement underestimates the vasodilation effects of nitroglycerin on the ascending aorta because without arterial pulse measurement it cannot show changes in late systolic pressure.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Internal Medicine

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