CORRELATION OF INTRACARDIAC PRESSURE AND PRAeCORDIAL MOVEMENT IN ISCHAeMIC HEART DISEASE

Abstract
The relation between the amplitude of the atrial component of the apex cardiogram and the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure suggests that use of this indirect, precordial procedure may offer a safe, rapid, reproducible, inexpensive method of documenting the presence of end-diastolic left ventricular pressure rise, and may decrease the dependence upon the complicated intraventricular pressure measurements, thus making it easier to study, to recognize, and to treat ischemic heart disease.