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May inform drug selection for myocardial efficiency; leaves open prospective outcome trials using PVA.
This review summarizes the mechanical determinants of myocardial oxygen consumption, highlighting the utility of the pressure-volume area (PVA) index and modern techniques like PET for assessing cardiac energetics.
C. L. Gibbs (1995) studied this question.
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