Abstract:
AIM:To explore a novel method for evaluating cardiac function in patients with rheumatic heart disease. METHODS: Heart sound signals were sampled randomly from 100 inpatients with rheumatic heart disease in our hospital from January to November 2011 (experimental group) and 100 relatives of patients without history of angiocardiopathy (control group). Heart rate, D/S ratio and S1/S2 ratio in the two groups were analyzed and compared. RESULTS: The heart rate, D/S ratio and S1/S2 ratio in experiment group were significantly different from those in the control group. CONCLUSION: Patients with rheumatic heart disease have lower levels of cardiac reserve. Monitoring heart sound signals is a new quantitative evaluation to assess patients’ preoperative cardiac reserve and operative tolerance.