Understanding cardiac physiology 007 – the dysmophia of the heart.

 

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pictured above : the normal hearts shape.

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with pulmonary vasoconstriction, the RV overdistends and the LV gets underfilled.

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when the RV overdistends, the heart muscle is overstretched and

the intercardiac septum shifts leftward.

This leftward shift of the intercardiac septum compromises some

of the left ventricles volume.

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The compromisation of the LV exacerbates the underfilling of the LV.

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