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Left-Sided Heart Failure

Known as: left side heart failure, failure heart left side, PULMONARY EDEMA CARDIAC CAUSE 
Failure of adequate output by the left ventricle despite an increase in distending pressure and in end-diastolic volume, with dyspnea, orthopnea, and… 
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Cardiovascular DiseasesCongestive heart failureHeart failure

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acute lv failure

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Independence of oxygen consumption and systemic oxygen transport in patients with either stable pulmonary hypertension or refractory left ventricular failure.
Recent studies have suggested that oxygen consumption (VO2) may be dependent on systemic oxygen transport (SOT) in patients with… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Valve Replacement for Aortic Regurgitation: Long‐term Follow‐up with Factors Influencing the Results
One hundred consecutive cases of valve replacement for aortic regurgitation performed between 1967–1971 were analyzed to identify… 
1979
1979
Clinical Implications of the Technetium-99m Stannous Pyrophosphate Myocardial Scintigraphic "Doughnut" Pattern in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarcts
Forty-five patients with acute myocardial infarcts had technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate (9"mTc-PYP) myocardial scintigrams… 
1977
1977
Apparent theophylline half-life fluctuations during treatment of acute left ventricular failure.
The administration of theophylline in a 63-year-old man with arteriosclerotic heart disease and chronic bronchitis is discussed… 
1976
1976
Effects of ouabain on myocardial oxygen supply and demand in patients with chronic coronary artery disease. A hemodynamic, volumetric, and metabolic study in patients without heart failure.
The effects of digitalis glycosides on myocardial oxygen supply and demand are of particular interest in the presence of… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Chronic vasodilator therapy in the management of cardiogenic shock and intractable left ventricular failure.
Abstract A patient with cardiogenic shock and intractable left ventricular failure due to coronary artery disease was treated… 
1973
1973
Cardiovascular effects of bretylium tosylate in acute myocardial infarction.
The cardiac and peripheral vascular effects of bretylium tosylate (adrenergic blocking and antiarrhythmic agent) administered… 
1971
1971
Radiological detection of clinically occult cardiac failure following myocardial infarctionl.
Abstract 1. One-third of the patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction showed radiological evidence of pulmonary oedema… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
CORRELATION OF INTRACARDIAC PRESSURE AND PRÆCORDIAL MOVEMENT IN ISCHÆMIC HEART DISEASE
A series of reports (Muller and R0rvik, 1958; Ross et al., 1962; Malmborg, Pernow, and Eliasch, 1962) has indicated that angina… 
1959
1959
Effects of sublingual nitroglycerin on pulmonary arterial pressure in patients with left ventricular failure.
Excerpt The retrosternal distress associated with paroxysmal dyspnea may be quite severe, and in many instances it is described…