Download or read book Cardiac Contraction and the Pressure-volume Relationship written by Kiichi Sagawa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of 15 years of intense collaborative research, this book explains the use of the pressure-volume diagram in evaluating cardiac performance. The authors describe the similarities between the ventricular pressure-volume relationship and the muscle tension-length relationship. The effects of various physiological mechanisms and pharmacological interventions are examined, as are the energetics of ventricular contractions and the hemodynamics of the entire circulatory system.