Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity is the gold standard for non-invasive assessment of arterial stiffness, though widespread clinical use requires standardized distance measurements and reference values.
Measurement of pulse wave velocity is of increasing importance for assessment of arterial stiffness and risk evaluation.Different techniques are available, based either on pressure, distension or Doppler waveforms.Techniques not only differ by the algorithm used to identify specific part of the pulse signal, but also in the preferred way to measure distance between sites.The merits of each technique are described, and a brief overlook of the marketed devices to measure pulse wave velocity is given.
Boutouyrie et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Arterial stiffness. Pulse wave velocity measurement was evaluated. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity is the gold standard for non-invasive assessment of arterial stiffness, though widespread clinical use requires standardized distance measurements and reference values.