Pulse Pressures

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What's the clinical significance of these pulse pressures?
 
Aortic regurgitation
Takayasu arteritis
Preductal coarctation
Pulsus parvus et tardus
 
+aortic stenosis. Wide pulse because you get substantial back flow to the heart with AR but narrow in AS because not enough blood leaves with systole and the heart is still full when it begins diastole. Books...other than first aid?
 
books? i sneezed all over that page.
 
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Pulse pressures = nearly useless in old people due to essential hypertension. More useful the younger the patient is.
 
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