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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2004
Kiyoyuki Narimatsu, Komaki, JP;
Kiyoyuki Narimatsu, Komaki, JP;
Colin Medical Technology Corporation, Komaki, JP;
Abstract
An arteriostenosis diagnosing apparatus which measures an ankle blood pressure at an ankleof a patient and a brachium blood pressure at a brachium, so that the measured ankle and brachium blood pressure values are used to calculate an ankle and brachium blood pressure index ABI, and additionally measures a first pulse wave propagation velocity PWVwith respect to the ankleas a first measuring point and the brachiumas a second measuring point, and a second pulse wave propagation velocity PWVwith respect to the patient's heart and the brachium. The arteriostenosis diagnosing apparatus includes an arteriostenosis judging devicewhich judges, even if the index ABI may fall in a prescribed normal range or a prescribed alert range and the first velocity PWVfalls in a prescribed normal range, that there is a possibility that an inferior limb including the ankleat which the ankle blood pressure has been measured, may have arteriostenosis, if the second velocity PWVfalls in a prescribed abnormal range.