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Meaning of "afterload"

Afterload (noun) - In the context of medical terminology, afterload refers to the pressure or resistance that the heart needs to overcome in order to pump blood out to the body
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  • The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force

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Afterload will get affected by this resistance.
It is an indicator of the left ventricular afterload.
Decreasing afterload will increase cardiac output.
Milrinone improves myocardial performance and reduces cardiac afterload.
We need afterload to get this heart pumping properly.
This tension is called afterload.
Left ventricular afterload is affected by various disease conditions.
The net effect is to reduce ventricular preload and afterload.
Afterload device for a beating heart during examination thereof.
Another notable result was an increase in afterload as a result of the control.
Increased afterload may be found in aortic stenosis and arterial hypertension.
Arteriolar relaxation reduces system vascular resistance and arterial pressure afterload.
Afterload refers to the.
This drug reduces right ventricle afterload by decreasing pulmonary vascular resistance.
It is speculated that myocardial fibrosis results from an increased right ventricle afterload.

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Decreased afterload and increased inotropy shifts the curve up and to the left.
The reduction in preload was proportionally more important than that of the afterload.
Aortic stenosis increases afterload creating hypertrophy as a compensation mechanism to maintain minute volume.
It helps counteracting irregular cardiac activity and reduces preload and afterload.
Afterload is the pressure against which the heart must work to eject blood during systole.
The shortening response to electrical stimulation was recorded by classic afterload isotonic technique.
Lower preload and afterload result in the heart needing less energy and thus less oxygen.
Mechanical ventilation positive pressure increases pulmonary vascular resistance and right ventricle afterload.
An increase in afterload will increase contractility through the Anrep effect.
In both hypertensive groups strong correlations were found between arterial stiffness and afterload.
Afterload Afterload is the resistance which the left ventricle has to pump.
This response enables the heart to maintain a normal stroke volume despite the increase in afterload.
The Mueller maneuver hypothesizes that acts to increase afterload are placed on the left ventricle.
Vasodilators decrease SVR and improve cardiac output by decreasing ventricular afterload.
Afterload is assessed from the SVRI value.
IV dilation with systolic function impairment afterload mismatch.
As afterload increases, cardiac output decreases.
This is where the most significant physiologic modulation of the Afterload occurs.
Afterload increased markedly, therefore attenuating any increase in cardiac output.
The RVEF was weakly correlated to the hemodynamic variables of RV afterload and function.
Elevated afterload ( commonly measured as the aortic pressure during systole ) reduces stroke volume.
The consequence is a marked pre - and afterload decrease.
The afterload in left ventricular makes a heart hypertrophy, where there is aortic valve and hypertension.
Symptom relief is a result of venodilation, afterload reduction, and coronary dilation.
Vasodilation can improve cardiac function by reducing preload and / or afterload.
In this experiment, a noticeable increase in afterload can be determined from the graph.
Amlodipine dilates peripheral arterioles, reducing the total peripheral resistance afterload.
In cat papillary muscles contracting physiologically, increasing the afterload caused a biphasic change in contractility.
As a result, the heart muscle must begin to pump against an increased afterload.
Abrupt standing Squatting, by increasing afterload and increasing preload.
Longitudinal, radial and circumferential myocardial deformations are significantly compromised in patients with elevated afterload.
In patients with coronary disease, significant reduction of the afterload may reduce coronary arterial flow.
Other authors, however, attribute this to increased aortic flow impedance with increased afterload.
In this experiment, an increase in the afterload and an increase in LVP were observed.
Power-load curves were obtained by multiplying force by velocity at each afterload applied.

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