[Analysis of the hemodynamics in patients with artificial mitral valve insufficiency].

Hemodynamic disorders which developed in 12 patients with artificial mitral incompetence were studied. A method developed in the clinic of analysing the findings of catheterization and cine-angiocardiography was used. The method of analysis of single-plane ventriculograms makes it possible to estimate the volume of blood regurgitated into the left atrium to an accuracy of several millilitres. The degree of artificial incompetence is determined from the relative regurgitation which is estimated by dividing the volume of returned blood flow by the total volume of ventricular ejection. It is concluded that the "malignancy" of the course of artificial incompetence is determined by a sharp reduction of the effective cardiac output (to 33--50% of the normal volume) against the background of rapid rapid exhaustion of the left ventricular myocardum.