Laplace's Law. >Yes. there is a dilated cardiomyopathy. Shrink the size of end diastolic >volume and you make the pump work harder (this is a basic law of physics >and >I can never remember whose it is. Would someone please help me on this- the >thing that says a balloon gets easier to inflate as it gets bigger- this >has >effects at volumes where the Starling curve is still on the unstroke). > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com