CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: A CLINICAL AND PHYSIOLOGIC CORRELATION*

THE importance of accurate diagnosis of congenital heart disease has led to the development and refinement of a series of technics and diagnostic procedures such as catheterization of the heart and angiocardiography.1'2'3 Although these procedures are of great diagnostic value in the recognition of the individual malformation, they should serve another equally important purpose, the promotion of a better understanding of the clinical and radio-logic manifestations of these malformations. A physician confronted with the complexities of congenital heart disease can be greatly aided by a thor-ough knowledge of the changes in vascular dynamics, which influence the electrocardiographic and clinical manifestations. The purpose of the present paper is to correlate the physiologic and clinical findings of the more common congenital malformations of the heart. This, it is hoped, will furnish the physician with a rational guide to the stepwise diagnosis of congenital mal-formations of the heart. The technics used in this study have been previously described in th