The heart is simply a muscle and a pump. When it is weak for any reason (see causes of congestive heart failure) it just can't keep up with the demands of the body. It gives out just like any ...

Afterload Reduction For patients with elevated right ventricular afterload and right ventricular failure, reducing afterload is beneficial.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes ...

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Increased afterload is not synonymous with systolic hypertension. In fact, nearly all our patients would have been considered normotensive, if not frankly hypotensive, if systolic blood pressure ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 211-219 (9 pages) AbstractRight ventricular (RV) afterload consists of both resistive and capacitive (pulsatile) components. Total afterload can ...

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