Ventricular Preload

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Introduction

• The end diastolic pressure stretching the ventricular walls (more rigorously the end diastolic wall stress). This determines the end- diastolic myocardial fiber length at the onset of ventricular contraction.

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

ventricular preload