Hemodynamic Sequelae of Sustained Elevation of Left Atrial Pressure

SELZER, ARTHUR M.D.

From the Medical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif.

Circulation 20(2):p 243-250, August 1959.

A comparison of hemodynamic findings in 63 cases of mitral stenosis and in 35 cases of chronic left ventricular failure is presented. It is shown that circulatory dynamics of the 2 conditions are similar and only minor differences were detected.