Showing papers by "Pierre Larochelle published in 1976"
TL;DR: The measurement of effective compliance provides an assessment of combined active and passive venous wall tension and venous tone and it is demonstrated that as the wall tension, developed during a fixed volume load, increased, there was an associated reduction in compliance.
Abstract: Total effective vascular compliance was measured repeatedly in open-chest dogs without circulatory arrest, utilizing a closed-circuit venous bypass system with a constant cardiac output Mutual ind
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