1968 年 32 巻 10 号 p. 1417-1426
Tension period, isometric contraction time and ejection time were measured in 20 normal subjects and 72 patients with nonvalvular heart disease to evaluate the usefulness of the duration of left ventricular systoles as an index of the ventricular performance. Left ventricular function could not be manifested with only one of those durations. The ratio of ejection time to isometric contraction time demonstrated a parallelism to changes in left ventricular performance. Serial observations of this ratio offer a convenient detection for the changes in left ventricular per-formance.
