Congestive Heart Failure: Biochemical and Physiological Considerations: Combined Clinical Staff Conference at the National Institutes of Health
Authors: EUGENE BRAUNWALD
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1966)

Clinical Staff Conference1 April 1966Congestive Heart FailureCombined Clinical Staff Conference at the National Institutes of HealthEUGENE BRAUNWALD, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLES A. CHIDSEY, M.D., PETER E. POOL, M.D., EDMUND H. SONNENBLICK, M.D., JOHN ROSS JR., M.D., DEAN T. MASON, M.D., JAMES F. SPANN, M.D., JAMES W. COVELL, M.D.EUGENE BRAUNWALD, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLES A. CHIDSEY, M.D., PETER E. POOL, M.D., EDMUND H. SONNENBLICK, M.D., JOHN ROSS JR., M.D., DEAN T. MASON, M.D., JAMES F. SPANN, M.D., JAMES W. COVELL, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-64-4-904 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDr. Eugene Braun Wald: Congestive heart failure, the subject of today's conference, is the disease state in which an abnormality of myocardial function is responsible for the heart's failure to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the body's requirements. Heart failure occurs so frequently that physicians are, in general, quite familiar with its clinical manifestations and methods of treatment. However, there is lack of agreement concerning the fundamental derangement responsible for this common disease state. Efforts to gain an understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the functional changes occurring in heart failure have constituted one of the objectives of...References1. OLSON RE: Physiology of cardiac muscle, in Handbook of Physiology, Section 2: Circulation Vol. I., edited by HAMILTON, W. F., DOW, P. American Physiological Society. Washington, D. C., 1962, p. 199. Google Scholar2. OLSON RE: Abnormalities of myocardial metabolism. Circ. Res. 15 (supplement 2): 109, 1964. Google Scholar3. BING RJ: Metabolism of the heart. Harvey Lect. 1954-55, Ser. 50: 27, 1956. Google Scholar4. CAINDAVIES DFRE: Breakdown of adenosine triphosphate during a single contraction of working muscle. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 8: 361, 1962. 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