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Ejection fraction (procedure)

Known as: ejection fraction, ejection fraction (EF) 
amount of blood pumped out of the left lower chamber of the heart with each heart beat
National Institutes of Health

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Left ventricular ejection fraction
Measurement of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

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Review
2006
Review
2006
"Indeterminate" microvolt T-wave alternans tests predict high risk of death or sustained ventricular arrhythmias in patients with left ventricular dysfunction.
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Use of pulsed Doppler tissue imaging to assess regional left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A permanent transvenous lead system for an implantable pacemaker cardioverter-defibrillator. Nonthoracotomy approach to implantation.
A transvenous lead system for implantable defibrillators would obviate a surgical thoracotomy and reduce the morbidity and… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Effect of Volume Loading, Pressure Loading, and Inotropic Stimulation on Left Ventricular Torsion in Humans
BackgroundThe transmural distribution of fiber angles and the extent of shortening among obliquely oriented fibers are likely to… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Fate of patients with acute myocardial infarction with patency of the infarct-related vessel achieved with successful thrombolysis versus rescue angioplasty.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Alternative referent standards for cardiac normality. Implications for diagnostic testing.
The radionuclide ventriculographic exercise response was evaluated in three patient populations representing alternative referent… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
The Detection of Coronary Artery Disease with Radionuclide Techniques: A Comparison of Rest–Exercise Thallium Imaging and Ejection Fraction Response
Fifty–two patients with suspected coronary artery disease underwent coronary angiography, thallium-201 myocardial imaging, and… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Variability in sequential measures of left ventricular performance assessed with radionuclide angiocardiography.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Detection of Coronary Heart Disease Using Radionuclide Determined Regional Ejection Fraction at Rest and During Handgrip Exercise: Correlation with Coronary Arteriography
SUMMARY The detection of regional asynergy provides strong evidence for a critical reduction of coronary blood flow to that zone… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Medical versus surgical therapy for acute coronary insufficiency. A randomized study.
Forty patients with acute coronary insufficiency, including continued angina at rest and reversible ischemic electrocardiographic… 
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