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1975 • 2,343 citations

THE EFFECT OF CORONARY OCCLUSION ON MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION

1935 • 1,133 citations

Effect of Captopril on Progressive Ventricular Dilatation after Anterior Myocardial Infarction

1988 • 1,119 citations

Heart failure from the point of view of quantitative anatomy∗

1960 • 727 citations

Effect of Intravenous Streptokinase on Left Ventricular Function and Early Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction

1987 • 628 citations

Regional Cardiac Dilatation after Acute Myocardial Infarction

1979 • 556 citations

TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH SYMPTOMLESS LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

1988 • 491 citations

Infarct expansion versus extension: Two different complications of acute myocardial infarction

1978 • 436 citations

The Histopathologic Evolution of Myocardial Infarction

1978 • 408 citations

Preservation of global and regional left ventricular function after early thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction

1986 • 328 citations

Coronary thrombolysis and myocardial salvage by tissue plasminogen activator given up to 4 hours after onset of myocardial infarction

1988 • 275 citations

Infarct artery perfusion and changes in left ventricular volume in the month after acute myocardial infarction

1987 • 264 citations

Late effects of acute infarct dilation on heart size: a two dimensional echocardiographic study

1982 • 255 citations

Functional Left Ventricular Aneurysm Formation after Acute Anterior Transmural Myocardial Infarction

1984 • 250 citations

Prognostic significance of location and type of myocardial infarction: Independent adverse outcome associated with anterior location

1988 • 247 citations

Time course of left ventricular dilation after myocardial infarction: Influence of infarct-related artery and success of coronary thrombolysis

1988 • 243 citations

Expansion of acute myocardial infarction: an experimental study.

1982 • 218 citations

Protection of Jeopardized Ischemic Myocardium by Reduction of Ventricular Afterload

1974 • 211 citations

The importance of the shape and size of the heart

1957 • 210 citations

Early recovery of left ventricular function after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: An important determinant of survival

1988 • 200 citations

Exercise training after anterior Q wave myocardial infarction: Importance of regional left ventricular function and topography

1988 • 200 citations

Prognosis after acute myocardial infarction in patients with and without residual anterograde coronary blood flow

1989 • 182 citations

Reduction of CK and CK-MB indexes of infarct size by intravenous nitroglycerin.

1981 • 178 citations

Patterns of left ventricular dilation during the six months after myocardial infarction

1989 • 176 citations

Effects of left ventricular shape and captopril therapy on exercise capacity after anterior wall acute myocardial infarction

1989 • 174 citations

Infarct expansion: Pathologic analysis of 204 patients with a single myocardial infarct

1986 • 174 citations

Reduction in Myocardial Ischemia with Nitroglycerin or Nitroglycerin plus Phenylephrine Administered during Acute Myocardial Infarction

1975 • 173 citations

Effect of streptokinase on left ventricular modeling and function after myocardial infarction: The GISSI (Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Streptochinasi nell'Infarto Miocardico) trial

1989 • 170 citations

Effects of successful intravenous reperfusion therapy on regional myocardial function and geometry in humans: a tomographic assessment using two-dimensional echocardiography

1989 • 169 citations

Steroid therapy during acute myocardial infarction

1974 • 168 citations

Electrophysiologic effects of thrombolytic therapy in patients with a transmural anterior myocardial infarction complicated by left ventricular aneurysm formation

1988 • 157 citations

From myocardial salvage to patient salvage in acute myocardial infarction: The role of reperfusion therapy

1989 • 147 citations

In vitro length-tension relations of human ventricular aneurysms

1973 • 128 citations

Scar thinning due to ibuprofen administration after experimental myocardial infarction

1983 • 120 citations

Left ventricular topographic alterations in the completely healed rat infarct caused by early and late coronary artery reperfusion

1988 • 109 citations

Results of a randomized prospective trial of intraaortic balloon counterpulsation and intravenous nitroglycerin in patients with acute myocardial infarction

1985 • 98 citations

Acute reduction in functional infarct expansion with late coronary reperfusion: Assessment with quantitative two-dimensional echocardiography

1988 • 91 citations

Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI-1) trial: Influence of infarct location on arterial patency, left ventricular function and mortality

1989 • 91 citations

Increased left ventricular volume following myocardial infarction in man

1986 • 90 citations

The heart as a muscle-pump system and the concept of heart failure

1979 • 87 citations

Reduction of infarct size in patients with inferior infarction with intravenous glyceryl trinitrate. A randomised study.

1983 • 79 citations

Myocardial infarct expansion during indomethacin or ibuprofen therapy for symptomatic post infarction pericarditis. Influence of other pharmacologic agents during early remodelling.

1989 • 73 citations

Role of infarct expansion in rupture of the ventricular septum after acute myocardial infarction: A two‐dimensional echocardiographic study

1987 • 73 citations

Increased afterload aggravates infarct expansion after acute myocardial infarction

1988 • 64 citations

Geometric and functional abnormalities of the left ventricle with a chronic localized noncontractile area

1973 • 60 citations

Impact of late coronary artery reperfusion on left ventricular function one month after acute myocardial infarction (results from the ISAM study)

1989 • 55 citations

Relation of left ventricular dilation during acute myocardial infarction to systolic performance, diastolic dysfunction, infarct size and location

1988 • 54 citations

Late ventricular dilatation in survivors of acute myocardial infarction

1989 • 52 citations

The effect of early exercise on myocardial infarct scar formation

1983 • 51 citations

Effect of exercise on acute myocardial infarction in rats

1986 • 43 citations

Geometric and muscle physiological determinants of cardiac stroke volume as evaluated on the basis of model calculations

1988 • 42 citations

Heart size and ten-year survival after uncomplicated myocardial infarction

1969 • 41 citations

Hemodynamic profile of patients with acute myocardial infarction at risk of infarct expansion

1987 • 36 citations

Short-term exercise has a prolonged effect on scar formation after experimental acute myocardial infarction

1983 • 34 citations

Disproportionate epicardial dilation after transmural infarction of the canine left ventricle: Acute and chronic differences

1988 • 32 citations

Connective tissue cells in healing rat myocardium. A study of cell reactions in rhythmically contracting environment.

1989 • 31 citations

Effects of transient increased afterload during experimentally induced acute myocardial infarction in dogs

1985 • 24 citations

Left ventricular hypertrophy in coronary artery disease

1973 • 20 citations

Infarct Size and Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1977 • 14 citations

Changes in Ventricular Function and Coronary Stenosis after Successful Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1988 • 3 citations

Effect of Reperfusion Experimental Myocardial Infarction in Rats

1988 • 2 citations