Branko Furst's Radical Alternative: Is the Heart Moved by the Blood, Rather Than Vice Versa?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The physiologic power of fluid circulation and implications for fluid therapy.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026
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2. The heart, a secondary organ in the control of blood circulation.Experimental physiology · 2025
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3. Anthroposophic Medicine: A Short Monograph and Narrative Review-Foundations, Essential Characteristics, Scientific Basis, Safety, Effectiveness and Misconceptions.Global advances in health and medicine · 2020
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4. Continuing the Debate: Branko Furst's Alternative Model And the Role of the Heart.P & T : a peer-reviewed journal for formulary management · 2017
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5. Debating the Role of the Heart.P & T : a peer-reviewed journal for formulary management · 2017
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Debating the Role of the Heart.2017
• Commented on by
  Continuing the Debate: Branko Furst's Alternative Model And the Role of the Heart.2017

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

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