THE THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BASES OF THE FRONTAL PLANE VENTRICULAR GRADIENT AND ITS SPATIAL COUNTERPART
THE THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BASES OF THE FRONTAL PLANE VENTRICULAR GRADIENT AND ITS SPATIAL COUNTERPART
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DOI:
10.1016/0002-8703(54)90221-5
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发表时间:
1954-01-01
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
BAKKEN, EE
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作者:
SIMONSON, E;SCHMITT, OH;BAKKEN, EE
1.1. The theoretical basis of the ventricular gradient concept is re-examined.2.2. The effect of changing pathway of ventricular activation is analyzed in Wilson's experiment and in a corresponding human case.3.3. Normal limits for the magnitude of the ventricular gradient are calculated and tabulated for a group of 107 healthy men and for corresponding material available from the literature.4.4. Analysis of the literature reveals that very few cases even with advanced myocardial involvement exceed these normal limits.5.5. No correlation is found between the manifest QRS and T areas in any of three different experimental normal groups even when the area measurements are made by means of an electronic integrator, which is described in appendix II.6.6. Analysis of the existing literature on the spatial gradient reveals that no adequate method of measurement has yet been described.7.7. A simple method for measuring the spatial ventricular gradient based on determination of a null point for the QRS-T area at the fifth intercostal space is developed.8.8. Some representative normal values of the spatial ventricular gradient and its components are given.9.9. A strong positive correlation between the spatial QRS and T areas is found in contrast with the negative correlation implied by conventional ventricular gradient theory.10.10. A theoretically more satisfactory definition of a spatial ventricular gradient is proposed based on the stereovector theory.11.11. Technical electronic means for instananeous determination of the spatial ventricular gradient are described.12.12. The results do not encourage further use of the frontal plane ventricular gradient in clinical electrocardiography. The value of its spatial correlate remains to be proved.