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THE classical jugular phlebogram (JP) is a composite record of arterial and venous pulsations. Mackenzie1 noted that if the carotid arterial pulse wave could be subtracted from the JP we would have what he called “the true venous pulse wave”. He was, however, unable to obtain such a record experimentally.
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Mackenzie, J., The Study of the Pulse, Arterial, Venous, and Hepatic and of the Movements of the Heart, Fig. 178, 183 (Young J. Pentland ; Edinburgh, 1902).
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MACKAY, I., WALKER, R. True Venous Pulse Wave. Nature 205, 1220 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051220a0
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