For example, left ventricular filling pressure can be estimated by Doppler ultrasound, although only under certain conditions.

The left ventricular filling pressures will revert to normal and the individual will no longer have overt heart failure.

Cardiogenic shock is defined by sustained hypotension with tissue hypoperfusion despite adequate left ventricular filling pressure.

By dilating (expanding) the veins, nitric oxide drugs lower arterial pressure and left ventricular filling pressure.

Furthermore, patients with a positive response had lower left ventricular ejection fractions and stroke volumes, higher left ventricular filling pressure, higher mean pulmonary arterial, and higher right atrial pressures.

That's due to increase in left atrial pressure and left ventricular filling pressure, which is due to decreased cardiac output caused by dyssynchrony in atrial and ventricular contraction.

It is most often precipitated by acute myocardial infarction or mitral regurgitation, but can be caused by aortic regurgitation, heart failure, or almost any cause of elevated left ventricular filling pressures.