COMPLETE heart block, with slow, regular ventricular beats, usually gives rise to a systolic murmur. 1–4 Generally, this murmur is thought to result from the large stroke volume, which produces rapid ...
The Frank-Starling Law is the description of cardiac hemodynamics as it relates to myocyte stretch and contractility. The Frank-Starling Law states that the stroke volume of the left ventricle will ...
THE question of how well the compensated human heart with a fixed rate in the physiologic range is capable of adapting to the demands for increased cardiac output has very practical implications for ...