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[The left ventricular force-length relationship in patients with heart failure]

T Masuda1, K Takeda, A Okamura

  • 1Department of Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi.

Journal of Cardiology
|January 1, 1993
PubMed
Summary

A novel contractility index (Ec) was evaluated in heart failure patients. This index, reflecting myocardial calcium or ATPase activity, may indicate compensatory mechanisms in failing hearts.

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