Lower Body Positive Pressure Application with an Antigravity Suit in Acute Carotid Occlusion
Figure 1
(a) Patterns of intracranial MCA blood flow velocities with time in both the right and left sides, before, during, and after (10 minutes and 48 hours) LBPP application. Note the left side improvement in systolic and diastolic blood flow velocity induced by LBPP, which was sustained for at least 2 days. (b) Vascular resistance index (RI) evolution (method for computation: systolic V/diastolic V). A clear difference between right and left RI occurred only after 48 hours of LBPP application. Corresponding mean arterial pressure (mean AP) and heart rate (HR) at each time.
