© 2000 by European Society of Cardiology
Copyright © 2000, European Society of Cardiology
Nonlinear biphasic relationship between the time constant tau and load
aDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
bSouth Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie Murphy Division, San Antonio, TX 78284, USA
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Received 22 October 1999; accepted 22 October 1999
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To the Editor,
I appreciate the excellent points raised by Leite-Moreira et al. regarding my manuscript examining the load sensitivity of left ventricular (LV) relaxation in heart failure [1], and welcome the opportunity to respond. As has been detailed by these authors and others previously, relaxation