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Cardiovascular system

Known as: Cardiovascular Organ System, Cardiovascular Body System, {Circulatory system} 
The system that contains the heart and the blood vessels and moves blood throughout the body. This system helps tissues get enough oxygen and… 
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Acute Rheumatic PericarditisAcute rheumatic heart diseaseAorticopulmonary Septal DefectArteriosclerosis

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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Circulatory mechanisms of shock and their mediators.
Traditional concepts of shock therapy have been based on conventional monitoring. However, the availability of invasive… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
A pharmacological approach to thromboxane receptor antagonism.
Thromboxane A2 (TxA2) appears to be an important mediator of ischemia and hypoxia. Despite its short half-life and the fact that… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Transmural Blood Flow of Multi‐Layered Latissimus Dorsi Skeletal Muscle Ventricles During Circulatory Assistance
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Intellectual Development of Children Subjected to Prolonged Circulatory Arrest During Hypothermic Open Heart Surgery in Infancy
Surface-induced hypothermia (14.5 to 21.8° C) and cardiac arrest (20 to 58 minutes) without cardiopulmonary bypass have been… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
A simplified method of cannulating the intestinal lymphatic of the rat.
'Please request reprints from Dr Andrew L. Warshaw, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02114… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Cardio-circulatory effects of beta-adrenergic blockade in organic heart disease. Comparison between propranolol and CIBA 39,089-Ba.
Beta-adrenergic blockers are increasingly used in the treatment of angina pectoris (Hamer et al., 1964, 1966; Srivastava, Dewar… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Hepatic Hemodynamics During Viral Hepatitis in Man
Hepatic blood flow (EHBF) was measured by the clearance-and-extraction method using indocyanine green (ICG) in 15 patients… 
Highly Cited
1958
Highly Cited
1958
Studies on the in vivo survival of glycerolized and frozen human red blood cells.
Ninety-four units of blood have been collected, glycerolized, stored in the frozen state at either —80 C or —120 C… 
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
TOTAL AND PERIPHERAL BLOOD FLOW IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Acute cardiac infarction is an event that might be expected to produce sudden left ventricular heart failure. Although… 
1955
1955
THE EFFECT OF EXERCISE ON LUNG DISTENSIBILITY AND RESPIRATORY WORK IN MITRAL STENOSIS
The selection of patients with mitral stenosis for valvotomy is considerably influenced by the degree of dyspncea of which the…