Apexcardiography in the diagnosis of haemodynamic disturbances in patients with congenital heart disease.
The dependence of the changes in the right and left ventricular apexcardiograms on the character and degree of haemodynamic disturbances was studied in 190 patients with congenital heart diseases. The findings were compared with the results of catheterization studies of the heart cavities. It was found that changes in the shape of the apexcardiogram were independent of the nosological nature of the heart defect, and were equal in the right and left ventricles. The character of changes in the shape of the apexcardiogram depends on the type of clinical ventricular overload, and the degree of changes depends on the severity of haemodynamic disturbances.
D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007702:Kinetocardiography