The Lewis A. Connor Memorial Lecture

The Lewis A. Connor memorial lecture: the physiology of the cardiac output.

Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture. Mysteries of renal autoregulation.

Autoregulation is an important renal regulatory mechanism that provides an important protective role in glomerular hemodynamics.1 The phenomenon of autoregulatory behavior has been recognized for many decades, but a clear understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved in mediating resistance adjustments remains to be established. As illustrated in Figure 1, pressure-mediated autoregulatory...

The Lewis Memorial

world ; and it was by the outcome of his work that, if we mistake not, he himself would have wished to be represented to those whom he left behind him?the workers and thinkers of the present and future generations. We have received the handsome volume containing his physiological and pathological researches as he himself wrote and published them. The collection forms a handsome quarto volume of...

Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture. The cardiac catheter and the American Heart Association.

THIS YEAR we are met not only for the 46th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association but also to celebrate its 25th year as a national voluntary health agency. The Association came into being in 1922, and Lewis A. Conner of New York was elected the first President. Also, he was the first editor of the American Heart Journal which the Association began in 1926. I did not have ...

The Lewis A. Conner memorial lecture, the nature of cardiac and of pulmonary dyspnea.

Dyspnea has many characteristics, differing from one clinical state to another. In pulmonary diseases the immediate cause is usually a disproportion between actual ventilation (breathing requirement) and breathing capacity. The hyperventilation of organic pulmonary disease is often mistakenly diagnosed as psychoneurosis. In early cardiac dyspnea, muscular fatigue associated with inadequate card...