The Cardiac Cycle and the Physiologic Basis of Left Ventricular Contraction, Ejection, Relaxation, and Filling

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Fukuta, Hidekatsu ^a   Little, William C ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BLOOD PUMP; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIASTOLE; EXERCISE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART CYCLE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART PRELOAD; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; REVIEW; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

DIASTOLE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE;

EID: 39649112375     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2007.10.004     Document Type: Review

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