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Rapid left ventricular filling and stasis in mitral regurgitation.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nixon, P. G. F. Wooler, Geoffrey H. |
| Copyright Year | 1961 |
| Abstract | In 1902 Mackenzie described the jugular pulse tracing from a patient with atrial fibrillation (Fig. 1). Pressure declined as the ventricle filled, and rose again before the ventricle contracted. He took this to be a sign that the ventricle filled some time before it contracted, and attributed the rise in venous pressure to stasis. In 1906 Yandell Henderson described the volume changes of the beating mammalian heart and showed that ventricular filling is accomplished rapidly during a phase that begins with the opening of the atrio-ventricular valve and ends with the muscle ceasing to relax. Blood flow into the ventricle is negligible during the remainder of diastole. He gave the name diastasis to the latter period of "rest" or stasis to distinguish it from the former phase of "ventricular relaxation and refilling". Furthermore he confirmed Mackenzie's observation that |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1136/hrt.23.2.161 |
| PubMed reference number | 13729328 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/23/2/161.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.23.2.161 |
| Journal | British heart journal |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
