BIOC33H3 Lecture Notes - Aortic Valve, Mean Arterial Pressure, Heart Valve

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20 Mar 2013
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Aortic pressure (i) arteries are pressure resovoirs. Phase 1 and 2 aortic valve is closed but there is still flow of blood out of the aorta: paorta. In the early and late stages of diastole, aortic pressure is decreasing. The first (slow) decrease of aortic pressure occurs when the semi-lunar valves are close (i. e. there is no blood being pumped from the ventricles into the aorta or pulmonary artery). This is because even though the heart is no longer pumping blood through the aortic valve into the aorta, blood is still flowing to the systemic circulation. The is because arteries function as pressure reservoirs the larger the artery, the greater this function. Phase 3 the aortic valve opens flowinto aorta > flow out aorta. Aorta pressure continues to fall from the maximum until the point between ventricular ejection phase and isovolumetric relaxation phase. Here ventricular pressure is less than the aortic pressure and this causes the semi-lunar valve to close.

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