Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Heart Transplant Recipients

Ambrosi, Pı̈erre; Kreitmann, Bernard; Habib, Gilbert

doi:10.1097/01.tp.0000435704.55805.f9

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“…Introduction: Monitoring of the heart's dynamics and its immediate periphery is essential to fully characterise and understand its functionality and variations [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Among the several reported techniques, a compatible and compact contactless probing system with the ability to measure heartbeat rate and pressure is highly desirable but has yet to be developed.…”

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Non‐invasive piezoelectric detection of heartbeat rate and blood pressure

Taradeh

Bastaki

Saadat³

et al. 2015

Electron. lett.

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A non-invasive piezoelectric-based sheet sensor is utilised for the deliberate measurement of heartbeat rate and blood pressure. It may consist of a single sheet to capture various temporal signals or it can be formed as an array of small piezoelectric sensors to capture the temporal and spatial cardiac signals over the chest to give an added spatial granularity on top of the localised temporal signal. The mechanical activity of the heart will cause the piezoelectric sheet to deform, and thus produce a voltage signal. To count the heartbeat rate, a mechanical model has been developed using the corresponding electric waveform; a compression ratio is defined due to the delay as a result of the physical coupling mechanism. Validation of the obtained results has been performed using conventional techniques and apparatus. The quantitative assessment shows low errors when compared with other conventional meters.

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Section: N Al Taradeh N Bastaki I Saadat and M Al Ahmad ✉mentioning

confidence: 99%

Non‐invasive piezoelectric detection of heartbeat rate and blood pressure

Taradeh

Bastaki

Saadat³

et al. 2015

Electron. lett.

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The Evaluation and Therapeutic Management of Hypertension in the Transplant Patient

Thomas

Weir

2015

Curr Cardiol Rep

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Organ transplantation is the therapeutic option of choice in the appropriate patient with end-organ disease. A major comorbidity after the transplant is the development of hypertension which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in this population even when there is a functioning graft. It is essential to evaluate post-transplant hypertension not only in the office setting but at home and at night as well. Hence, the use of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in both diagnosis and long-term care of this patient population is paramount. Factors involved in uncontrolled hypertension include the donor, recipient, and those specific to the transplant such as immunosuppressive drug exposure. The major offending immunosuppressive agents belong to the calcineurin inhibitor class. The therapy of post-transplant hypertension involves pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions that should be tailored to the specific patient and type of transplant. There is clearly a need for more definitive data and quality studies in both the renal and non-renal transplant populations.

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