The preload recruitable stroke work relationship as a measure of left ventricular contractile dysfunction in porcine cardiac allografts
Ryan JB, Hicks M, Cropper JR, Garlick SR, Kesteven SH, Wilson MK, Macdonald PS, Feneley MP Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002 Nov;22(5):738-45 PMID: 12414040 Abstract OBJECTIVE: Paradoxically, it has been reported that after 1.5-4 h of hypothermic ischaemic preservation there is complete recovery of contractile function in canine cardiac allografts, as assessed by the preload…