Articles published by University Favaloro investigators that became frequent citations in the scientific literature

• Experimental acute right ventricular failure and right ventricular assist in the dog.
  JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, 90: 580-585, 1985
• Real-time pressure-volume diagrams for the evaluation of ventricular function.
  JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 8: 200-206, 1986
• Animal model of acute pulmonary thromboembolism treated by local recirculation of streptokinase through the lung.
  JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY 93 (4): 620-627, 1987
• Inconsistency of the slope and the volume intercept of the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship as individual index of inotropic state in conscious dogs. Presentation of an index combining both parameters.
  CIRCULATION 76: 1115-1126, 1987
• Detection of left ventricular regional myocardial ischaemia in dogs by intraventricular conductance catheter.
  CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH 23 (3): 185-192, 1988
• End-systolic pressure-volume relationships in dogs during ventilation with PEEP.
  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY (Heart Circ Physiol 23): H664-H670, 1988
• A computer study of the relation between chamber mechanical properties and mean pressure-mean flow of the left ventricle.
  CIRCULATION RESEARCH 62: 1121-1133, 1988.
• Single-beat evaluation of left ventricular inotropic state in conscious dogs.
  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 256 (Heart Circ Physiol 25): H56-H65, 1989
• Effect of long-term oral nisoldipine on infarct size and collateral development in pigs undergoing gradual occlusion of the left circumflex artery.
  JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY 15: 644-654, 1990
• Relationship between Vmax and conduction velocity in uniform anisotropic canine ventricular muscle. Difference in the effect of lidocaine and amiodarone.
  JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY, 16: 931-939, 1990
• Effects of muscarinic and ß-adrenergic blockade on the aortic elastic response to epinephrine induced acute hypertension in conscious dogs.
  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION 3: 476-481. 1990
• Interventricular coronary steal induced by stenosis of the left anterior descending artery in exercising pigs.
  CIRCULATION, 83: 1361-1370, 1991
• Paradoxically decreased aortic wall stiffness in response to vitamin D3-induced calcinosis: a biphasic analysis of segmental elastic properties in conscious dogs.
  CIRCULATION RESEARCH, 68: 1549-1559, 1991
• Assessment of elastin and collagen contribution to aortic elasticity in conscious dogs.
  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 260 (Heart Circ Physiol 29): H1870-1877, 1991
• Calculating the end-systolic pressure-volume relation (letter).
  CIRCULATION, 83:1121-1123, 1991
• Active and passive effects of antihypertensive drugs on large artery diameter and elasticity in human essencial hypertension.
  JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY, 19: 78-85, 1992
• Antiphospholipid antibodies enhance thrombin-induced platelet activation and thromboxane formation.
  THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS, 70: 667-671, 1993
• The contractile mechanism as an approach to build left ventricular pump models.
  CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH, 27: 1449-1461, 1993
• Assessment of smooth muscle contribution to descending thoracic aortic elastic mechanics in conscious dogs.
  CIRCULATION RESEARCH, 73: 1040-1050, 1993
• Left ventricular end-systolic elastance is incorrectly estimated by the use of stepwise afterload variations in conscious, unsedated, autonomically intact dogs.
  CIRCULATION, 90: 1431-1440; 1994
• Evaluation of recently described tests for detection of the lupus anticoagulant.
  THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS, 72:728-733, 1994
• Arterial mechanics in conscious dogs: Assessment of viscous, inertial and elastic moduli to characterize the aortic wall behaviour.
  CIRCULATION RESEARCH, 76: 468-478, 1995
• Is the use of t-PA as compared with streptokinase cost-effective?
  THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, 333:1009-1010, 1995
• Increased expression of inducible cyclooxygenase-2 in human endothelial cells by antiphospholipid antibodies.
  THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS, 74: 770-777, 1995
• Injury procedures early rise in lipoprotein lipase activity in rabbit aorta.
  ATHEROSCLEROSIS, 125:257-266, 1996
• A cardiac muscle model relating sarcomere dynamics to calcium kinetics.
  JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY, 28:915-929, 1996
• Reactivity to ß2 glycoprotein I clearly differentiates anticardiolipin antibodies from antiphospholipid syndrome and syphilis.
  THROMB HAEMOSTAS 75:717-20, 1996
• In vivo angiotensin II receptor blockade and converting enzyme on canine aortic viscoelasticity.
  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, 272: 859-868, 1997
• Spectral analysis of cardiorespiratory signals.
  WAVELET THEORY IN HARMONIC ANALYSIS IN APPLIED SCIENCES (book): 155-171, 1997