For patients with hypertension who have normal filling pressures following right cardiac catheterization, can hypertension still be attributed to volume overload?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Yes. Diastolic pressures are dynamic and fluctuate quickly with the dynamic changes in daily blood pressure and salt load especially in patients with diastolic dysfunction myocardial mechanics.
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