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Symposium on ventricular function: Clinical applications based on new understanding of pathophysiology| Volume 23, ISSUE 4, P528-537, April 01, 1969

Left ventricular volume and mass and their significance in heart disease

  • Harold T. Dodge
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    Address for reprints: Harold T. Dodge, M.D., University of Alabama Medical Center, 1919 Seventh Ave. South, Birmingham, Ala. 35233.
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    From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., USA
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  • William A. Baxley
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    From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(69)90006-X
Left ventricular volume and mass and their significance in heart disease
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      Abstract

      Methods are now available for determining left ventricular chamber dimensions, volume, volume curves, wall thickness and mass. These observations, when taken together with left ventricular pressure, can be used to characterize the left ventricle as a pump and determine end-diastolic volume, stroke volume, ejection fraction, rates of ejection and filling, mass, work and work components and power. Methods for deriving these values and their significance in the evaluation of the functional state of the left ventricle in patients with heart disease are discussed.
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      Footnotes

      ☆This work was supported in part by Grants HE 11310, 5 RO1 HE 05080 and 2 MO1 FR 3208 from the U. S. Public Health Service and Grant RD 2219 M from the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(69)90006-X

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      © 1969 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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