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Preload and Afterload
Find out exactly what preload and afterload mean, and why most of us use a handy shortcut to guess-timating what they are!
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  1. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?
  2. What is Preload?
  3. Preload and Pressure
  4. Preload Stretches out the Heart Cells
  5. Frank-Starling Mechanism
  1. Sarcomere length-tension relationship
  2. Active contraction vs. passive recoil
  3. What is afterload?
  4. Increasing the Heart's Force of Contraction
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Preload and Afterload
Find out exactly what preload and afterload mean, and why most of us use a handy shortcut to guess-timating what they are!
Subscribed Subscribe
  1. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?
  2. What is Preload?
  3. Preload and Pressure
  4. Preload Stretches out the Heart Cells
  5. Frank-Starling Mechanism
  1. Sarcomere length-tension relationship
  2. Active contraction vs. passive recoil
  3. What is afterload?
  4. Increasing the Heart's Force of Contraction
 
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