Inotropic contractile reserve: A useful predictor of increased 5 year survival and improved postoperative left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease and reduced ejection fraction

Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels.

1974 • 1,451 citations

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

1974 • 279 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

Detection of Residual Myocardial Function in Coronary Artery Disease Using Post-extra Systolic Potentiation

1974 • 197 citations

Augmentation of Left Ventricular Contraction Pattern in Coronary Artery Disease by an Inotropic Catecholamine

1974 • 184 citations

Comparison of biplane and single plane left ventriculograms in patients with coronary artery disease

1974 • 143 citations

Regional ejection fraction: a quantative radionuclide index of regional left ventricular performance.

1979 • 136 citations

Reproducibility of the angiographic left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with coronary artery disease

1974 • 96 citations

Response of the left ventricle in coronary artery disease to postextrasystolic potentiation.

1975 • 81 citations

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

1975 • 76 citations

Immediate hemodynamic effects of cardiac angiography in man

1973 • 68 citations

Detection of latent function in acutely ischemic myocardium in the dog: comparison of pharmacologic inotropic stimulation and postextrasystolic potentiation.

1975 • 55 citations

Use of the augmented ejection fraction to select patients with left ventricular dysfunction for coronary revascularization

1976 • 32 citations

Influence of left ventricular function on early prognosis in atherosclerotic heart disease

1974 • 21 citations