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It is well known that the loudness of the first heart sound is influenced by the duration of the PR interval and the position of the atrioventricular valve cusps at the moment of ventricular contraction, but the exact mechanism of this phenomenon has not been explained satisfactorily.
Leech et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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