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Left ventricular passive elastic stiffness constants are sensitive indicators of myocardial damage that depend on the intrinsic quality of the myocardium rather than wall thickness alone. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

September 1, 1974CirculationOpen Access

Passive Elasticity of the Human Left Ventricle

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Population

45 patients undergoing routine cardiac catheterization, divided into groups including normal, idiopathic…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

AFArieh FesterUniversity of Miami PSPhilip SametBaptist Hospital of Miami

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Implication

May gauge myocardial damage severity in CAD/CHF; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.

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Population

45 patients undergoing routine cardiac catheterization, divided into groups including normal (n=8), idiopathic hypertrophy without obstruction (n=7), congestive heart failure in severe coronary artery disease (n=6), moderate to severe CAD (n=6), and mild to moderate CAD (n=9).

Outcome

Left ventricular stiffness constants (K2, b1, K3) and end-diastolic passive elastic stiffness (E2ed, E3ed)surrogate

Left ventricular stiffness constants derived from pressure-volume and stress-strain relationships correlate with the severity of myocardial damage across different cardiac disease states.

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Fester et al. (1974) studied this question.

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Heart failure HFrEF treatment

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Passive Elasticity of the Human Left Ventricle

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Passive Elasticity of the Human Left Ventricle

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Structured PICO

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