. Since pulse wave transit time (PWTT) shortens as pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) increases it was suggested as a potential non-invasive surrogate for PAP. The state of tidal lung filling is also known to affect PWTT independently of PAP. The aim of this retrospective analysis was to test whether respiratory gating improved the correlation coefficient between PWTT and PAP.. In each one of five anesthetized and mechanically ventilated pigs two high-fidelity pressure catheters were placed, one directly behind the pulmonary valve, and the second one in a distal branch of the pulmonary artery. PAP was raised using the thromboxane A2 analogue U46619 and animals were ventilated in a pressure controlled mode (I:E ratio 1:2, respiratory rate 12/min, tidal volume of 6 ml kg). All signals were recorded using the multi-channel platform PowerLab. The arrival of the pulse wave at each catheter tip was determined using a MATLAB-based modified hyperbolic tangent algorithm and PWTT calculated as the time interval between these arrivals.. Correlation coefficient for PWTT and mean PAP was= 0.932 for thromboxane. This correlation coefficient increased considerably when heart beats either at end-inspiration (= 0.978) or at end-expiration (= 0.985) were selected (=respiratory gating).. The estimation of mean PAP from PWTT improved significantly when taking the respiratory cycle into account. Respiratory gating is suggested to improve for the estimation of PAP by PWTT.

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