A parasternal heave, lift,[1] or thrust[2] is a precordial impulse that may be felt (palpated) in patients with cardiac or respiratory disease. Precordial impulses are visible or palpable pulsations of the chest wall, which originate on the heart or the great vessels.[3]
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A parasternalheave, lift, or thrust is a precordial impulse that may be felt (palpated) in patients with cardiac or respiratory disease. Precordial impulses...
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hepatojugular reflux. If the right ventricular pressure is increased, a parasternalheave which causes the compensatory increase in contraction strength may...
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murmur. First, a midsystolic murmur followed by S2. Following this is a parasternal early diastolic and mid-diastolic murmur (Austin Flint murmur). The exact...
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