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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 13, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(24):2609-2610; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi607
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Wave reflections and cardiovascular epidemiology and therapeutics

Michel E. Safar*

Diagnosis Center, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, 1 place du Parvis Notre-Dame, 75181 Paris Cedex 04, France

* Corresponding author. Tel: +33 1 42 34 80 25; fax: +33 1 42 34 86 32. E-mail address: michel.safar@htd.ap–hop–paris.fr

This editorial refers to ‘Increased arterial wave reflections predict severe cardiovascular events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions’{dagger} by T. Weber et al., on page 2657

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Since the last century, studies of pulsatile arterial haemodynamics have shown that the blood pressure (BP) curve should be interpreted as a wave.1 Following ventricular ejection, a shock wave results from the acute interaction between stroke volume and the aortic wall. Then, this resulting forward wave propagates at a given velocity (pulse wave velocity, PWV) along the arterial tree. At any discontinuity of the vascular wall, but mainly at the arteriolar branching points, the wave is reflected and comes back towards the heart at the same PWV. Thus, at each point of arterial circuit, but especially at the site of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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