title: [Studies of X-ray morphology of the heart contour in ischemic heart disease as seen in dorsoventral X-ray photography of the thorax in the basis of coronarographic findings (author's transl)].
abstract: Cardiovascular diseases hold a place of considerable importance in national health schemes and various screening methods have been devised to determine and to control such diseases. One of the methods is based on the use of thorax photofluorographs obtained from regular nation-wide X-ray examinations. The ischemic heart disease is a significant group among cardiovascular diseases and it appears that dorsoventral photofluorography is an insufficient means for its recognition. For 250 subjects examined by intracardial methods for suspected ischemic heart disease, a retrospective study of dorsoventral thorax photofluorographs was performed along the lines of the classification by Richter and Böck. The results show that in about 75 percent of the cases of ischemic heart disease associated with serious lesions of the coronary vessels, no signs of changes in the heart contour were seen in photofluorographs of the thorax. It is concluded that the evaluation of chestfilm is an inadequate approach as far as the ischemic heart disease group is concerned within photofluorographic screening programmes for cardiovascular diseases.
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D010779:Photofluorography
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen zur Rötgenmorphologie der Herzkontur im dorsoventralen Thoraxschirmbild bei der ischämischen Herzkrankheit auf der Grundlage koronarographischer Befunde.