end-diastolic pressure

Elevated left ventricular end-diastolic pressure has been described as a risk factor in cardiac surgery.

This is because the end-diastolic pressure and volume of the ventricle are increased, which stretches the sarcomeres.

Because the ventricle is inadequately emptied, ventricular end-diastolic pressure and volumes increase.

This results in higher ventricular end-diastolic pressures (EDP) at any given end-diastolic volume (EDV).

Several parameters can be calculated for each loop (e.g. end-diastolic pressure, end-systolic pressure, ejection and filling intervals, contractility index, stroke volume, and ejection fraction).

The failure of ventricular relaxation also results in elevated end-diastolic pressures, and the end result is identical to the case of systolic dysfunction (pulmonary edema in left heart failure, peripheral edema in right heart failure.)