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. 1960 Dec;39(12):1874–1884. doi: 10.1172/JCI104211

STUDIES ON STARLING'S LAW OF THE HEART. III. OBSERVATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH MITRAL STENOSIS AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEFT VENTRICULAR END-DIASTOLIC SEGMENT LENGTH, FILLING PRESSURE, AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF VENTRICULAR CONTRACTION *

Eugene Braunwald 1, Robert L Frye 1, Maurice M Aygen 1, Joseph W Gilbert Jr 1
PMCID: PMC441912  PMID: 16695840

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