Cardiac pressor agents typically reduce the amount of blood pumped with each heartbeat. Cardiovascular hemodynamic principles can show whether such a response is physiologic or maladaptive. You have ...

The heart pumps blood against the mechanical afterload from arterial resistance, and increased afterload may alter cardiac electrophysiology and contribute to life-threatening arrhythmias. However, ...

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Decreasing pulmonary hyperinflation using bronchoscopic lung volume reduction improved cardiac preload, contractility and output in a cohort of patients with emphysema, according to study findings.