Existence of the Frank-Starling mechanism in the failing human heart: Investigations on the organ, tissue, and sarcomere levels

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 683-689

  Holubarsch, Christian ^a   Ruf, Thorsten ^a   Goldstein, Daniel J ^c   Ashton, Robert C ^c   Nicki, Werner ^a   Pieske, Burkert ^a   Pioch, Katja ^a   Lüdemann, Jens ^a   Wiesner, Sandra ^a   Hasenfuss, Gerd ^a   Posival, Herbert ^b   Just, Hanjörg ^a   Burkhoff, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

contractility; heart failure; ventricles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SKINNED MUSCLE FIBER; STARLING LAW;

EID: 9544240359     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.4.683     Document Type: Article

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