Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure can be used to estimate:
a. left-atrial preload.
b. left-atrial afterload.
c. left-ventricular end-diastolic pressure.
d. right-ventricular end-diastolic pressure.
ANS: C
Pulmonary artery wedge pressure, or pulmonary artery occlusion pressure, is used as an estimate of left atrial pressure and thus preload of the left ventricle, or left-ventricular end-diastolic pres-sure.
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