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researchers measured the amount of blood remaining in the heart’s left atrium after completing a contraction phase. They also examined the fraction of blood ejected from the left atrium with ...

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From the Cardiology Branch. National Heart Institute (requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. Braunwald at the National Heart Institute, Bethesda. Maryland 20014). † Clinical director ...

Characteristics of the cardiac pump. Analysis of the heart as a pump has classically centered upon the relation between the filling pressure or diastolic volume (the Frank–Starling relation).

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If your heart’s electrical system triggers the early or extra beat in the atria, the result is a premature atrial contraction. A similar condition -- premature ventricular contraction (PVC ...