Amyl Nitrite Induced Changes in Cardiac Shunts.

نویسنده

  • G R CUMMING
چکیده

Several recent publications have shown that changes in heart murmurs after the inhalation of amyl nitrite may be of diagnostic aid (Vogelpoel et al., 1959; Barlow and Shillingford, 1958). The effect of amyl nitrite on intracardiac heemodynamics and intracardiac heart sounds has been studied extensively by Vogelpoel et al. (1960, 1961) and Schrire et al. (1961). For the past four years amyl nitrite has been used in this laboratory as a diagnostic aid in the course of heart catheterization studies. Dye dilution curves obtained before and after amyl nitrite are of diagnostic value in certain situations and form the basis of this report.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • British heart journal

دوره 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1963