The apical impulse in coronary heart disease

Abstract

Summary:Forty patients (36 with coronary artery disease), who had angiographic assessment of left ventricular function were studied using apexcardiography with a new method of standardization, the objective being to define the parameters of the apical impulse which reflect changes in the left ventricular function and correlate them with clinical assessment of the apical impulse. Based on measurements from patients with normal left ventricular function, abnormalities in apexcardiograms were identified. An increase in amplitude of percent A wave alone (greater than 13.3 %) (palpable as an atrial kick in approximately half of these patients) was not associated with significant left ventricular dysfunction. An isolated abnormality in isovolumic slopes, although associated with mild left ventricular dysfunction, could not be detected clinically. Moderate to severe left ventricular dysfunction was always associated with abnormal ejection phase slopes and all had sustained apical impulses. The additional presence of a palpable atrial kick or an increased percent A wave on the apexcardiogram was more indicative of moderate rather than severe dysfunction. Thus this study clearly establishes that left ventricular function does in fact affect the nature of the apical impulse in patients with coronary artery disease and these can be easily defined.

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