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Overview. Your pulse is the vibration of blood as your heart pumps it through your arteries. You can feel your pulse by placing your fingers over a large artery that lies close to your skin. The ...
The apex beat (lat. ictus cordis ), also called the apical impulse, [1] is the pulse felt at the point of maximum impulse ( PMI ), which is the point on the precordium farthest outwards (laterally) and downwards (inferiorly) from the sternum at which the cardiac impulse can be felt. The cardiac impulse is the vibration resulting from the heart ...
Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a rare heart condition characterized by the thickening of your heart muscle near the bottom of your left ventricle. Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM ...
Parasternal heave. A parasternal heave, lift, [1] or thrust [2] is a precordial impulse that may be felt (palpated) in patients with cardiac or respiratory disease. Precordial impulses are visible or palpable pulsations of the chest wall, which originate on the heart or the great vessels. [3]
Bundle Branch Block: What to Know. Impulses, or electrical signals, travel through both the left and right chambers of your heart to make it pump. But if the pathway is blocked, the impulses may ...
The condition occurs when the left ventricle is too weak to pump a normal amount of blood. When the percent of blood ejected from the heart has been reduced, it’s called “systolic heart ...
Cardiac examination. In medicine, the cardiac examination, also precordial exam, is performed as part of a physical examination, or when a patient presents with chest pain suggestive of a cardiovascular pathology. It would typically be modified depending on the indication and integrated with other examinations especially the respiratory ...
High blood pressure, heart disease, or hyperthyroidism. Stress or fatigue. Caffeine. Alcohol. Smoking. Cold or hay fever medicine. Asthma medicine. Dehydration. Usually, premature atrial ...