title: Gammacardiographic and ballistocardiographic comparison of indices of central haemodynamics and the myocardial contractile functional state in patients with coronary heart disease.
abstract: A complex ballistocardiographic and gammacardiographic investigation was carried out in 62 patients with coronary heart disease; ballistocardiographic and gammacardiographic indices have been compared. We established pathologic ballistocardiographic changes, which indicate a disturbance of the myocardial contractile function. Considerable changes of central haemodynamics, studied by means of gammacardiography, were recorded. There is a relationship between ballistocardiographic indices of the myocardial contractile function and radiocardiographic indices of central haemodynamics.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001450:Ballistocardiography; D002306:Cardiac Volume; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D011865:Radioisotope Dilution Technique