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In his article Rankin (this volume) noted that William Harvey was one of the first to stress that the “heart becomes thicker in its walls” during a contraction. Measurements in conscious dogs and man (1,2) indicate that wall thickness near the equator normally increases 10–50% during systole. Despite this considerable change, we aim to argue in this chapter that the thickening of the wall during systole is not a significant phenomenon for relating the average behaviour of sarcomeres in the wall to the dynamics of the whole left ventricle.
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Hunter, W.C., Baan, J. (1980). The Role of Wall Thickness in the Relation between Sarcomere Dynamics and Ventricular Dynamics. In: Baan, J., Arntzenius, A.C., Yellin, E.L. (eds) Cardiac Dynamics. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8796-8_13
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