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Adventures in cardiovascular research.

This article, derived from an invited Distinguished Scientist lecture presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in 2007, reviews 4 themes (adventures) in clinical cardiovascular research carried out over a period of 58 years. It begins with the author's introduction to cardiovascular hemodynamics during a medical school elective in 1951. The 4 adventures include valvular h...

Cardiovascular Research in Germany.

Introduction: Development of Cardiovascular Research German academic cardiovascular medicine has been traditionally rigidly separated into clinical cardiology, where the top clinicians had some early career basic science exposure but practiced exclusively clinical medicine, and classic basic science departments, that is, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology, where the chair had a cardiovascu...

Cardiovascular Research in France

Controversies in Cardiovascular Research

The first two articles in this issue of CIRCULATION RESEARCH by Jos A. E. Spaan and Francis /. Klocke et al. address various aspects of coronary pressure-flow relationships which have been a matter of some controversy in recent years. Issues such as the physiological significance of zero flow pressure and the role of intramyocardial compliance are important for our understanding of the regulati...