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Figure 1

From: Clinical relevance of data from the pulmonary artery catheter

Figure 1

Schematic representation of PAOP. The grey area represents the area without flow. Examples are given of pathologies in which PAOP is not equivalent to left ventricular preload. LA, left auricle; LAP, left atrial pressure; LV, left ventricle; LVEDP, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure; LVEDV, left ventricular end-diastolic volume; PAOP, pulmonary artery occlusion pressure; RA, right auricle; RV, right ventricle.

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Critical Care

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