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Cardiac output in cor pulmonale

Archiv für Kreislaufforschung volume 46, pages 7–17 (1965)Cite this article

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The average level of cardiac output in patients with cor pulmonale has been found to be significantly higher than that encountered in a group of patients with hypertensive and/or atherosclerotic heart disease. Furthermore, a greater proportion of those with cor pulmonale was found to have levels of blood flow in the normal or above normal range than was found in patients with hypertension and/or atherosclerosis.

Studies over a period of 22 years, have shown that the cardiac output in patients with cor pulmonale is not as high today as it was during the early years of observation. This change in dynamics has been ascribed to improved management of the underlying pulmonary disease.

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  1. Réjane M. Harvey, Yale Enson & André Cournand

    Present address: Department of Medicine, Columbia University, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y., USA

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  1. Department of Medicine, Columbia University, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y., USA

    M. Irené Ferrer

  2. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y., USA

    Réjane M. Harvey, Yale Enson, André Cournand & M. Irené Ferrer

  3. Cardiopulmonary Laboratory of the First Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y., USA

    Réjane M. Harvey, Yale Enson, André Cournand & M. Irené Ferrer

  4. Chest Service, Columbia University Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y., USA

    Réjane M. Harvey, Yale Enson, André Cournand & M. Irené Ferrer

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Supported by Research grants HE-02001-08 and HE-05741 from the National Heart Institute, U.S. Public Health Service, and by a Public Health Service research career program award (5-K6-HE-16, 1603-02) from the National Heart Institute.

Recipient of investigatorship of the Health Research Council of the City of New York under contract I-176.

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Harvey, R.M., Enson, Y., Cournand, A. et al. Cardiac output in cor pulmonale. Archiv für Kreislaufforschung 46, 7–17 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02120166

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Keywords

  • Public Health
  • Hypertension
  • Blood Flow
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Heart Disease