Sentences with phrase «decrease afterload»

In general, ACE inhibitors lower the blood pressure (decrease afterload) and decrease salt and water retention.

It also helps dilate the peripheral blood vessels, decreasing afterload, and making it easier on the heart to push the blood into the arteries.

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Pimobendan is proven to decrease preload and afterload, and this, in combination with pimobendan's inotropic properties, may result in a reduction in cardiac size and filling pressures in dogs with significant cardiac remodelling secondary to MMVD.

By dilating the blood vessels taking blood away from the heart, it decreases the work the heart must do to pump blood around the body and thereby reduces the afterload on the heart