The authors discuss the mechanisms, clinical presentation, and evaluation of right ventricular failure, as well as its management.

The epinephrine increases afterload by stimulating alpha receptors, increases the contractility (squeezing force of the heart or inotropy) and heart rate by stimulating beta receptors.

Increased afterload is not synonymous with systolic hypertension. In fact, nearly all our patients would have been considered normotensive, if not frankly hypotensive, if systolic blood pressure ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes ...

AbstractRight ventricular (RV) afterload consists of both resistive and capacitive (pulsatile) components. Total afterload can be measured directly with pulmonary artery input impedance spectra or ...

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Inadequate ventricular mass with chronic afterload excess was associated with progressive contractile deficit and possibly reduced cardiac output and restrictive cardiomyopathy. The deficits were ...