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Arterial wall elasticity: State of the art and future prospects - 18/05/13

Doi : 10.1016/j.diii.2013.01.025 
E. Messas a, , M. Pernot b, M. Couade c
a Pôle cardiovasculaire, médecine vasculaire-HTA, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris Research Cardiovascular Center, Inserm 633, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France 
b Institut Langevin, ondes et images, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS UMR 7587, Inserm U979, 1, rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France 
c SuperSonic Imagine, Les Jardins de la Duranne, bâtiment E & F, 510, rue René-Descartes, 13857 Aix-en-Provence, France 

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Abstract

Peripheral vascular disease is a frequently occurring disease and is most often caused by atherosclerosis and more rarely by anomalies of the collagen or other components of the arterial wall. Arterial stiffness problems form one of the precursor phenomena of peripheral vascular disease, and in the case of atherosclerosis represents an independent risk marker for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. The first techniques, developed to evaluate arterial stiffness, use indirect measurements such as pulse wave velocity or the analysis of variations in pressure and volume to estimate arterial wall stiffness. Techniques based on the pulse wave lack precision because they assume that arterial stiffness is uniform throughout the path of the pulse wave, and that it is constant throughout the cardiac cycle. Moreover, measuring the velocity of the pulse wave may be less precise in certain pathological situations: metabolic syndrome, obesity, large chest, mega-dolico artery. Techniques based on the analysis of variations in pressure and in volume do not accurately measure blood pressure, which can only be taken externally. In addition, these techniques require dedicated equipment, which is not reimbursed by the French health care system, and which is cumbersome to use (especially for techniques based on variation in pressure) in clinical practice. This explains why these two techniques are not used in clinical practice. Ultrafast echography is a new ultrasound imaging method that can record up to 10,000 images per second. This high temporal resolution makes it possible to measure the velocity of the local pulse wave and arterial wall stiffness thanks to the remote palpation carried out by shear wave. The ease of use and the accuracy of these two techniques suggest that these diagnostic applications will play a significant role in vascular pathology in the future. It is possible in real time, using a traditional vascular ultrasound probe, to make an accurate assessment of local arterial stiffness and of its variation during the cardiac cycle. This technological breakthrough will probably improve phenotype evaluation of patients suffering from vascular diseases, to more effectively evaluate the cardiovascular risk for patients, at primary and secondary prevention level, and to carry out broad epidemiological studies on cardiovascular risks.

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Keywords : Arterial stiffness, Pulse wave, Ultrafast echography, Ultrafast echo-elastography, Shear wave


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Vol 94 - N° 5

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