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Coupling of the heart and the arterial system has been a subject of investigation for more than half a century. Both systems are usually described in terms of pressure and flow. In the analysis of heart arterial coupling, however, the aortic valves constitute an obstacle. Owing to the nonlinear properties of the aortic valves and the compliance of the arterial system, two distinct pressures exist: left ventricular pressure and aortic pressure. These nonlinear properties prohibit a direct comparison of the quantitative descriptions of the two systems.
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van den Horn, G.J. (1987). Heart-Arterial Coupling: How to Bypass the Aortic Valves. In: Yin, F.C.P. (eds) Ventricular/Vascular Coupling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8634-6_9
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