Vectorcardiogram for aortic heart disease

Abstract

To clarify the value of VCG in the differential diagnosis of aortic malformations, we examined 80 patients with acquired heart defects (42 women and 38 men aged 17 to 60 years). In 35 of them there was aortic semilunar valve insufficiency in combined aortic or aortic-mitral malformations (the 1st group) and in 45 patients there was aortic orifice narrowing in the mentioned malformations (the 2nd group). All patients had heart defects of rheumatic etiology.

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