© 2000 by European Society of Cardiology
Copyright © 2000, European Society of Cardiology
Nonlinear biphasic relationship between the time constant tau and load
aDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
bDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
cDepartment of Cardiology, University of Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Dear Editor,
We read with great interest the article by Prabhu [1]. This author studied left ventricular (LV) relaxation during transient vena cava occlusion in normal and failing hearts. He described the LV relaxation-systolic