Diastolic left ventricular function
Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 30 Mar, 2009
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Clinical diastole is from the point of aortic valve closure to the point of mitral valve closure. But actual relaxation of the ventricle starts prior to that.
Diastole is both passive as well as an active process and needs adenosine triphosphate (ATP) for:
-release of calcium from Troponin C
-reuptake of calcium into sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) by Sarco/Endoplasmic [...]
