Cardiac atrophy after bed-rest deconditioning: A nonneural mechanism for orthostatic intolerance

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 517-525

  Levine, Benjamin D ^a,c   Zuckerman, Julie H ^a   Pawelczyk, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Cardiac volume; Diastole; Elasticity; Pressure; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BED REST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DP-DT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING LAW; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0030854092     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.96.2.517     Document Type: Article

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