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

Load Independence of the Instantaneous Pressure-Volume Ratio of the Canine Left Ventricle and Effects of Epinephrine and Heart Rate on the Ratio

1973 • 1,468 citations

Contractile state of the left ventricle in man as evaluated from end-systolic pressure-volume relations.

1977 • 603 citations

End-systolic pressure/volume ratio: A new index of ventricular contractility

1977 • 602 citations

Ventricular Function

1954 • 595 citations

Left Ventricular Tension and Stress in Man

1963 • 493 citations

Vasodilator Therapy of Cardiac Failure

1977 • 487 citations

Hemodynamic and Metabolic Responses to Vasodilator Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1973 • 421 citations

Zur Dynamik des Herzmuskels

1895 • 391 citations

Arterial impedance as ventricular afterload.

1975 • 369 citations

Wall stress in the normal and hypertrophied human left ventricle

1968 • 320 citations

Implications of muscle mechanics in the heart.

1962 • 276 citations

Vasodilator Therapy of Cardiac Failure

1977 • 217 citations

The George Fahr Lecture

1952 • 169 citations

Left ventricular force-length relations of isovolumic and ejecting contractions

1976 • 162 citations

The Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture

1957 • 159 citations

The Pressure Pulses in the Cardiovascular System

1929 • 148 citations

Maximum Velocity as an Index of Contractility in Cardiac Muscle

1970 • 137 citations

Force-Velocity Relations in the Intact Dog Heart*

1964 • 126 citations

Myocardial oxygen consumption: the role of wall force and shortening

1977 • 108 citations

Relation Between Mural Force and Pressure in the Left Ventricle of the Dog

1962 • 100 citations

Myocardial Mechanics: Tension-Velocity-Length Relationships of Heart Muscle

1964 • 95 citations

Identification of high risk subsets of acute myocardial infarction

1978 • 81 citations

Problems Concerning the Application of Concepts of Muscle Mechanics to the Determination of the Contractile State of the Heart

1972 • 71 citations

Instantaneous force-velocity-length relations: Experimental findings and clinical correlates

1977 • 63 citations

Determinants of stroke volume in the isolated canine heart.

1974 • 61 citations

Factors influencing left ventricular shortening in isolated canine heart

1976 • 59 citations

Left ventricular dysfunction following acute myocardial infarction

1973 • 53 citations

The Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture

1960 • 37 citations

Instantaneous force-velocity-length relations in isolated dog heart

1977 • 34 citations