The indirect assessment of arterial compliance in hypertension patients by tonometric sphygmography
Prisada, O.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 102(1-2): 42-48
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 10756811 Document Number: 484760
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) constitutes a powerful risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Clinical studies indicate that despite their equipotent blood pressure lowering effects, there are marked differences not only in the ability of the different types of antihypertensive drugs to prevent or or reverse LV mass but also within the same class of pharmacological drugs. Tonometric sphygmography may shows radial and synthesized ascending aortic pressure waves with augmentation of late systolic aortic pressure peak that is attributable to early return of wave reflection (marker of arterial compliance).