Pressure overload hypertrophy and congestive heart failure

the heart dilates with invocation of preload reserve, the ventricular wall thins, wall stress acutely augments and myocardial shortening significantly declines (both an acute afterload excess and reduction of myocardial contractility)— point A to point B in Figure 1 (2,20,21). As concentric hypertrophy develops, cavity dilation diminishes ... ................
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