Blood Fractions Articles & Analysis
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It can’t contract properly. It may fill with enough blood during the cardiac cycle’s diastole phase, but it can’t pump that blood with enough force during the systole phase. This leads to a reduced amount of blood ejected (ejection fraction). If the heart pumps normally but is too stiff to fill properly, the ...
Preliminary efficacy data from the first nine patients treated with the latest implantation technique and with adjudicated core lab data available through six months demonstrated a reduction in left ventricular volume by an average of 23%. Ejection fraction, a measure of blood flowing out of the left ventricle, improved on average from 31% to 39% over the same ...