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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2016 May 6;19(16):1714–1720. doi: 10.1080/10255842.2016.1183122

Table 3.

Global average of LV stress in the myofiber direction at end-diastole (kPa).

Case # Before
unloading
After
unloading
% Decrease
1 1.57 1.34 14%
2 9.70 3.33 65%
3 10.02 3.06 69%
4 2.88 2.73 5%
5 3.42 3.00 12%

Note: each case was loaded to the measured end-diastolic pressure to generate the stress in the LV.