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. 2008 Jan 28;153(8):1589–1601. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0707673

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The diastolic pressure-time integral reflects the driving force for coronary blood flow. Any decrease in diastolic aortic pressure (upper right), increase in diastolic ventricular pressure (lower left), delay in isovolumic ventricular relaxation (lower right) and decrease in diastolic duration (upper left) impedes coronary blood flow.