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One of the most significant advances in the area of assessing cardiac performance over the past 20 years has been the ability to determine dimensions for isolated cardiac muscle or the intact heart. Dimensions and/or change in dimensions compared with simultaneously measured force or pressure have resulted in the now well-known length-tension and force velocity concepts and the ability to characterize the intact heart as a muscle or as a pump (1–6). The ability to measure dimensions in the intact heart, particularly in man, presents many unique problems. These include the need to use clinically acceptable methods for obtaining such information and to account for the complex configuration of the ventricular chambers.
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Sandler, H. (1971). Left Ventricular Volume, Mass and Related Measures; Usefulness in Determination of Ventricular Function. In: Snellen, H.A., Hemker, H.C., Hugenholtz, P.G., Van Bemmel, J.H. (eds) Quantitation in Cardiology. Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2927-8_17
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