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Aortic flow acceleration has been used to evaluate myocardial performance by invasive (1, 2, 3), or by non-invasive means (4) using the acceleration ballistocardiogram (BCG). Comparisons of the two methods in animals and man (5,6,7,8,9) have shown fairly good fits. Also, ejection fraction by ventriculogram could be estimated closely from BCG measures (10, 11). However, suggestive as these experimental and limited studies are, the widespread clinical use of the BCG has been hampered by lack of large-scale comparison with accepted clinical measures of pump function, by only a recent appreciation of aortic flow acceleration as a sensitive measure, and by lack of broadly acceptable clinical standards based on data with ultralow frequency beds. Previous work with various beds, showing decline of BCG measures with increasing age, was reported by Starr and Noordergraaf (5), Moss (12), Proper (13) and Zuiderveld (14). A committee on clinical standards was appointed by the 4th World Congress on Ballistocardiography in 1975. The present paper, a contribution to that effort, derives standards for normal males, then applies them to post-infarct patients, and those having diagnostic coronary angiography.
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Dinaburg, A.G., Bancroft, W.H., Eddleman, E.E. (1980). Cardiac Pump Function by Ballistocardiogram: Normal Standards and Comparison with Coronary Arteriograms. In: Baan, J., Arntzenius, A.C., Yellin, E.L. (eds) Cardiac Dynamics. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8796-8_41
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