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The carotid tracing and apexcardiogram in subaortic stenosis and idiopathic myocardial hypertrophy

1963; Elsevier BV; Volume: 11; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0002-9149(63)90001-8

1879-1913

Alberto Benchimol, Jean F. Legler, E. Grey Dimond,

Congenital heart defects research

I N a PREVIOUS paper’ we reported abnormalities of the indirect carotid tracing in patients with aortic valvular stenosis, and we confirmed some of the findings previously described in the literature.2-12 The described findings, consistently present in all patients with this valvular lesion, consisted of prolonged total ejection time and upstroke time, carotid shudder, low anacrotic notch and an inconspicuous dicrotic notch. At that time we also indicated that 2 of our cases with subaortic stenosis presented distinct characteristics in the carotid tracing which were quite different from those in the cases with the valvular type of aortic obstruction. The purpose of this present report is to analyze in more detail the abnormalities of the carotid tracings in patients with subaortic stenosis and in cases of idiopathic myocardial hypertrophy.