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

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