Fig. 2.
Representative RV and LV Pf–V relationships. The lower panel shows a distinctly sigmoidal LV Pf–V relationship. The top panel shows an RV Pf–V relationship that could also be fitted with an exponential model; its shape, however, can also be viewed as corresponding to the upper, convex to the abscissa, portion of an overall sigmoidal curve (See Fig. 1). Such curves belong to the ensemble of sigmoidal diastolic Pf–V trajectories in Fig. 1 b