To determine the mechanism of the decrease in stroke volume during loaded breathing, we noninvasively measured the effects of inspiratory threshold loading on relative left ventricular end-diastolic volume, end-systolic volume, and stroke volume in a group of 15 normal subjects using radionuclide ventriculography gated for both the cardiac and the respiratory cycles.
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