In cardiac physiology, preload is the amount of sarcomere stretch experienced by cardiac muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, at the end of ventricular...

Look up preload or preloading in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Preload may refer to: Preload (cardiology), maximum stretch of the heart at the end...

increased, which stretches the sarcomeres. Preload can be calculated as preload=LVEDP×LVEDR2h{\displaystyle {\text{preload}}={\frac {{\text{LVEDP}}\times...

volume overload Cardiac failure Frank–Starling law of the heart Preload (cardiology) Pressure overload Costanzo, Linda S. (2007). Physiology. Hagerstwon...

etc. Whether the problem is primarily increased venous back pressure (preload), or failure to supply adequate arterial perfusion (afterload) Whether...

reducing preload (volume of blood in the heart after filling); this is thought to be its primary mechanism of action. By decreasing preload, the heart...

the individual, sex, contractility, duration of contraction, preload and afterload. Preload refers to the filling pressure of the atria at the end of diastole...

symptoms in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy by decreasing ventricular preload volume and thereby increasing outflow resistance (less blood to push aside...

venous return and as a consequence causes a reduction in left ventricular preload. This results in a reduction in left ventricular stroke volume and will...

"Archimedes Pump" just north of the Aortic Valve that purports to reduce both preload and afterload. The same tech can apparently also be deployed just above...