"Phonocardiography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Graphic registration of the heart sounds picked up as vibrations and transformed by a piezoelectric crystal microphone into a varying electrical output according to the stresses imposed by the sound waves. The electrical output is amplified by a stethograph amplifier and recorded by a device incorporated into the electrocardiograph or by a multichannel recording machine.
| Descriptor ID |
D010701
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.370.380.400.500
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phonocardiography" by people in Profiles.
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The etiology of tumor plop in a patient with huge right atrial myxoma. Chest. 1989 May; 95(5):1147-9.
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Malfunction of a St. Jude medical heart valve in mitral position. Ann Thorac Surg. 1982 Apr; 33(4):391-5.
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Portal and atrial pressures in the newborn period. A comparative study of infants born with early and late clamping of the cord. Acta Paediatr Scand. 1966 Nov; 55(6):615-25.
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The second sound-mitral opening snap (A2-OS) interval during exercise in the evaluation of mitral stenosis. Circulation. 1966 Mar; 33(3):399-403.
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Serial phonocardiography during the neonatal period. A comparative study in infants born with early and late clamping of the cord. Z Kinderheilkd. 1965 Sep 03; 93(4):354-74.