Point: Counterpoint: Left ventricular volume during diastasis is/is not the physiological in vivo equilibrium volume and is/is not related to diastolic suction

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 606-608

  Shmuylovich, Leonid ^a   Chung, Charles S ^b   Kovács, Sándor J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; DIASTOLE; ELASTICITY; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DIASTOLE; ELASTICITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 77955622543     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01399.2009     Document Type: Article

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