Experimental Studies

Stenosis of the Main Artery Supplying an Organ: Effect of End-Organ Vascular Resistance on the Poststenotic Peak Systolic Velocity in an in Vitro Hydraulic Model at Doppler US

Abstract

PURPOSE: To test the hypothesis that increased end-organ vascular resistance reduces blood flow to the kidney, thus reducing the mean velocity in the renal artery and secondarily lowering the peak systolic velocity (PSV).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: An in vitro hydraulic model with a pulsatile pump, blood-mimicking fluid, interchangeable stenoses, and variable compliance and resistance was used to investigate the relationship between end-organ vascular resistance and poststenotic PSV.

RESULTS: Poststenotic PSV was mildly dependent on end-organ vascular resistance and decreased with increasing resistance.

CONCLUSION: The results help explain some of the reported variability from using poststenotic PSV to detect hemodynamically significant renal arterial stenoses, but the effect is not great enough to completely explain the variability. Other factors not investigated in this study must be at work as well.

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