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intraventricular pressure

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intraventricular pressure
Etymology: L, intra, within, ventriculus, little belly
the pressure of the blood within the heart's ventricles. It varies with the phase of the cardiac cycle.


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The severity of symptoms induced by myocardial bridges has been related to the localization of the bridge, its length and depth, and the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy or an increased intraventricular pressure (8).
Noncompacted myocardium has also been described in association with congenital cardiac malformations that cause intraventricular pressure overload or ischemia (obstructive lesions of the RV or LV outflow tract and congenital coronary anomalies).
A vascular proliferation of the cerebral ventricles that serves to regulate intraventricular pressure by secretion or absorption of cerebrospinal fluid.
 
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