What Is Afterload Pressure

The afterload is the amount of pressure that the heart needs to exert to eject the blood during ventricular contraction. This is recorded as the systolic pressure of the heart. The changes in the afterload affect the stroke volume, end-systolic volume, end-diastolic volume, and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure.

What is the meaning of afterload?

Afterload is defined as the ventricular wall stress or tension that develops during systolic contraction and ejection of blood into the aorta.

Is afterload high blood pressure?

Afterload is a measure of the force resisting the ejection of blood by the heart. Increased afterload (or aortic pressure, as is observed with chronic hypertension) results in a reduced ejection fraction and increased end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes.