Homo pulsans

Homo pulsans (Latin for pulsating person ) is a symptom of aortic valve insufficiency . The patient has "flinging arterial pulses "; during the physical examination of the patient, jumping pulses are noticed on the neck, the elbows and groins, and on the wrists.

The pronounced pulsations arise as a result of the large forward volume in the systole and the backward movements of the diastole of the blood.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linus Geisler : Internal medicine. Textbook for nursing professions. 19th edition. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, p. 133
2. ↑ Walter Siegenthaler (Ed.): Siegenthaler's differential diagnosis. Internal diseases - from symptom to diagnosis. 19th edition. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart and New York 2005, p. 856

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