Chronic right ventricular pressure overload induces metabolic changes in both ventricles that are not solely attributable to increased right ventricular pressure.
Chronic right ventricular pressure overload increases myocardial glucose uptake and/or its phosphorylation in the right ventricular free wall, and alters the regional profiles of substrate use in the ventricular septum and left ventricular free wall despite the homogeneous blood flow distribution. The results of the acute right ventricular pressure overload study, in which only right ventricular 14C-BMHDA deposition was increased compared with controls, suggest that the findings obtained from chronic pulmonary artery constricted rats cannot be explained by increased right ventricular pressure alone.
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