Hosted on MSN

Apical Pulse: What It Is & How to Check It

The apical pulse (or precordial impulse) originates from the bottom of the heart and is felt on the outer left chest wall just under the nipple. The apical pulse can provide information about heart ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Variations in the First Apical Sound Simulating the So-Called “Presystolic Murmur of Mitral Stenosis” — A Phonocardiographic Study

ALTHOUGH Fauvel, 1 in 1843, attributed the apical presystolic murmur to stenosis of the mitral valve, Duroziez's 2 description — "ffout-tata-rou" — in 1862 has been considered as the classic ...