Preserved right ventricular ejection fraction predicts exercise capacity and survival in advanced heart failure

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1984 • 3,130 citations

Effect of Vasodilator Therapy on Mortality in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

1986 • 2,409 citations

Value of peak exercise oxygen consumption for optimal timing of cardiac transplantation in ambulatory patients with heart failure.

1991 • 1,807 citations

Comparison of neuroendocrine activation in patients with left ventricular dysfunction with and without congestive heart failure. A substudy of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD).

1990 • 1,397 citations

Hormones regulating cardiovascular function in patients with severe congestive heart failure and their relation to mortality. CONSENSUS Trial Study Group.

1990 • 1,151 citations

The natural history of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1981 • 957 citations

Survival in men with severe chronic left ventricular failure due to either coronary heart disease or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1983 • 684 citations

Prognostic significance of atrial fibrillation in advanced heart failure. A study of 390 patients.

1991 • 572 citations

Factors influencing the one-year mortality of dilated cardiomyopathy

1984 • 568 citations

Prognostic importance of serum sodium concentration and its modification by converting-enzyme inhibition in patients with severe chronic heart failure.

1986 • 555 citations

Correlates and prognostic implication of exercise capacity in chronic congestive heart failure

1985 • 505 citations

Clinical determinants of mortality in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated or to ischemic cardiomyopathy

1987 • 465 citations

Ejection fraction, peak exercise oxygen consumption, cardiothoracic ratio, ventricular arrhythmias, and plasma norepinephrine as determinants of prognosis in heart failure

1993 • 423 citations

Right ventricular ejection fraction: An indicator of increased mortality in patients with congestive heart failure associated with coronary artery disease

1983 • 386 citations

Prognostic importance of serum sodium concentration and its modification by converting-enzyme inhibition in patients with severe chronic heart failure.

1986 • 372 citations

Importance of hemodynamic response to therapy in predicting survival with ejection fraction ≤ 20% secondary to ischemic or nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

1990 • 347 citations

Improved exercise capacity and differing arterial and venous tolerance during chronic isosorbide dinitrate therapy for congestive heart failure.

1983 • 295 citations

"Anaerobic threshold": problems of determination and validation

1983 • 293 citations

Determinants of variable exercise performance among patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction

1983 • 292 citations

Task force 3: Recipient guidelines/prioritization

1993 • 290 citations

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1991 • 288 citations

Relation of right ventricular ejection fraction to exercise capacity in chronic left ventricular failure

1984 • 279 citations

Prognostic guides in patients with idiopathic or ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy assessed for cardiac transplantation

1990 • 270 citations

Prediction of outcome in dilated cardiomyopathy.

1987 • 183 citations

Predicting death from progressive heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1993 • 182 citations

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1987 • 177 citations

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1971 • 169 citations

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1986 • 154 citations

Factors predicting mortality in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1990 • 139 citations

Contribution of left ventricular contraction to the generation of right ventricular systolic pressure in the human heart.

1985 • 137 citations

Evaluation of severity of heart failure using ventilatory gas analysis.

1990 • 121 citations

Influence of the pericardium and ventricular interdependence on left ventricular diastolic and systolic function in patients with heart failure.

1990 • 104 citations

Right ventricular ejection fraction during exercise in normal subjects and in coronary artery disease patients: assessment by multiple-gated equilibrium scintigraphy.

1980 • 96 citations

Response of right ventricular ejection fraction to upright bicycle exercise in coronary artery disease.

1979 • 94 citations

Incremental prognostic value of exercise hemodynamic variables in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease or to dilated cardiomyopathy

1991 • 90 citations

Prediction of outcome in late-stage cardiomyopathy

1990 • 90 citations

Comparison of left and right ventricular end-systolic pressure-volume relations in congestive heart failure

1985 • 75 citations

Clinical and hemodynamic predictors of survival in patients aged <65 years with severe congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

1993 • 74 citations

Sources of variability in the radionuclide angiographic assessment of ejection fraction: A comparison of first-pass and gated equilibrium techniques

1984 • 54 citations

Exercise tolerance in congestive heart failure

1988 • 54 citations

The Normal Right Ventricular Response to Supine Exercise

1982 • 50 citations

Exercise Instruments, Schemes, and Protocols for Evaluating the Dyspneic Patient^1–3

1984 • 42 citations

Hemodynamic and clinical significance of the pulmonary vascular response to long-term captopril therapy in patients with severe chronic heart failure

1985 • 28 citations

Exercise testing in aortic regurgitation: Comparison of radionuclide left ventricular ejection fraction with exercise performance at the anaerobic threshold and peak exercise

1983 • 27 citations

Prognostic factors affecting diagnosis and treatment of congestive heart failure

1989 • 17 citations

Cardiac function and functional capacity: Implications for the failing heart

1993 • 8 citations