Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with ejection fractions below forty percent

The use of biplane angiocardiography for the measurement of left ventricular volume in man

1960 • 1,284 citations

Survival of medically treated patients in the coronary artery surgery study (CASS) registry.

1982 • 758 citations

Variables predictive of survival in patients with coronary disease. Selection by univariate and multivariate analyses from the clinical, electrocardiographic, exercise, arteriographic, and quantitative angiographic evaluations.

1979 • 678 citations

Progress Study of 590 Consecutive Nonsurgical Cases of Coronary Disease Followed 5-9 Years

1973 • 550 citations

Progress Study of 590 Consecutive Nonsurgical Cases of Coronary Disease Followed 5-9 Years

1973 • 311 citations

Influence of Direct Myocardial Revascularization on Left Ventricular Asynergy and Function in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

1973 • 294 citations

Left ventricular ejection fraction as a prognostic guide in surgical treatment of coronary and valvular heart disease

1974 • 279 citations

Loss of the improvement of angina between 1 and 7 years after aortocoronary bypass surgery: correlations with changes in vein grafts and in coronary arteries.

1979 • 247 citations

Natural history of obstructive coronary artery disease: Ten-year study of 601 nonsurgical cases

1978 • 242 citations

Prognosis in medically-treated coronary artery disease: influence of ejection fraction compared to other parameters.

1975 • 210 citations

Postextrasystolic Potentiation as a Predictor of Potential Myocardial Viability: Preoperative Analyses Compared With Studies After Coronary Bypass Surgery

1977 • 198 citations

Serial measurements of left ventricular ejection fraction by radionuclide angiography early and late after myocardial infarction

1976 • 192 citations

Variables predictive of survival in patients with coronary disease

1980 • 186 citations

Aortocoronary Saphenous-Vein Bypass

1974 • 158 citations

Coronary artery bypass grafts for congestive heart failure

1971 • 122 citations

Ischemic cardiomyopathy: The myopathy of coronary artery disease

1974 • 107 citations

Myocardial revascularization for the patient with drastic impairment of function of the left ventricle

1977 • 92 citations

Relationship of regional myocardial perfusion to segmental wall motion: a physiologic basis for understanding the presence and reversibility of asynergy.

1978 • 87 citations

Fate of Left Ventricular Contraction following Aortocoronary Venous Grafts

1972 • 81 citations

Relation between contractile reserve and prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease and a depressed ejection fraction.

1975 • 76 citations

Isolated coronary artery bypass grafting in patients seventy years of age and older: early and late results.

1982 • 72 citations

The “bad” left ventricle

1976 • 66 citations

Safe early revascularization for continuing ischemia after acute myocardial infarction.

1979 • 63 citations

Isolated coronary artery bypass grafting in patients seventy years of age and older

1982 • 62 citations

Ischemic cardiomyopathy: Medical versus surgical treatment

1977 • 59 citations

Effects of Surgery on Angina (Pre- and Postinfarction) and Myocardial Function (Failure)

1972 • 57 citations

Improved long-term survival following myocardial revascularization in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction

1981 • 53 citations

Predictors of surgical mortality in patients undergoing direct myocardial revascularization.

1974 • 51 citations

Direct Coronary Arterial Revascularization

1971 • 48 citations

Criteria for Operability and Reduction of Surgical Mortality in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Ischemia and Dysfunction

1978 • 45 citations

Long-term survival following coronary bypass surgery in patients with significant impairment of left ventricular function.

1975 • 41 citations

Effects of coronary bypass grafting on resting left ventricular contraction in patients studied 1 to 2 years after operation

1979 • 40 citations

Asynergy in Coronary Heart Disease

1977 • 25 citations

Effect of parent coronary arterial occlusion on left ventricular function after aortocoronary bypass surgery

1977 • 15 citations

Coronary Artery Surgery in Patients with Impaired Left Ventricular Function

1972 • 13 citations

Hemodynamic effect of myocardial revascularization in the impaired ventricle

1982 • 13 citations

Aorta-to-coronary artery bypass operation for chronic intractable congestive heart failure.

1974 • 10 citations

The bad left ventricle

1978 • 3 citations

The surgical management of coronary artery disease with myocardial dysfunction.

1981 • 2 citations