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(Circulation. 1950;2:402.)
© 1950 American Heart Association, Inc.

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The Effect of Exercise on the Plasma Volume of Patients with Heart Failure

ROBERT P. GILBERT M.D.¹ J. K. LEWIS M.D.¹

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif.

Exercise performed in the supine position by patients with congestive failure was found to cause not only a greater elevation of the peripheral venous pressure than it causes in normal persons, but also a proportionately greater fall of the plasma volume.