Kinetocardiographic findings of myocardial infarction.

A BNORMAL PULSATIONS of the chest wall due to myoeardial aneurysms have been previously described 1-4 and emphasized by Dressler and Pfeiffer5 and Vakil.6 However, these pulsations have not been systematically evaluated by objective methods. In addition, it is not certain whether such pulsations are due to actual anatomic aneurysms or "functional" bulging of the ventricular wall. The fact that the heart may have paradoxic pulsations in myocardial infarction has been well established.7-11 This communication presents a study of graphically recorded precordial movements (kinetocardiograms) from patients with myoeardial infarctions.