Circulation StudioVirtual Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory
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Disease states

Restrictive Cardiomyopathy

Elevated biventricular filling pressures with rapid early filling followed by a dip-and-plateau contour.

Overview

Select Restrictive Cardiomyopathy under Clinical controls → Cardiomyopathy. The bold italic live label confirms the active selection. These are the preset’s teaching features; combined disease, rate and interventions can change the resulting numbers.

Elevated biventricular filling pressures with rapid early filling followed by a dip-and-plateau contour.

RA has prominent x and y descents; RV shows a diastolic dip and plateau.

Wedge pressure exceeds right-sided filling pressure in this illustrative preset.

The paused LV/RV comparison illustrates respiratory concordance in restriction versus discordance in constriction; a dip-and-plateau alone does not distinguish them.

Step by step

  1. Reset interventions if you want the untreated example.
  2. Select the condition and inspect the pressure summary and relevant waveforms.
  3. Pause for annotations; add one intervention or loading change to compare the response.

References & further reading

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