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(Circulation. 1957;15:492.)
© 1957 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Pulmonary Function in Left Ventricular Failure, Including Cardiac Asthma

RICHARD S. COSBY M.D.¹; ELLERY C. STOWELL JR. PH.D.¹; W. RAY HARTWIG B.S.¹; M. MAYO A.B.¹

¹ From the Departments of Medicine (Cardiology), and Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and the Los Angeles County Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif.

Unusually comprehensive studies of pulmonary function in hypertensive patients during left ventricular failure and cardiac asthma are presented. These findings are compared to those in mitral stenosis with congestive failure and in pulmonary emphysema with right heart failure. All patients were severely dyspneic and bedridden.

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