The results showed significant shifts for all regions but the precentral gyrus (all ps < 0.05), providing statistical evidence for a leftward shift of GM volume curves in ASD relative to controls.
If intervention does not occur, enlargement of the RV can lead to tricuspid annular dilatation with regurgitation, an increase in right ventricular end-diastolic volume and leftward movement of the septum, with final impairment of the LV [ 10].
Interestingly, the leftward shift of GM volume curves in ASD is in stark contrast to brain maturation curves observed in ADHD, which are characterized by a rightward shift along the age axis, indicating a delay in brain development (Shaw et al. 2007).
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Voxel-wise analysis revealed a large number of white matter volume asymmetries, including leftward asymmetry of the arcuate fasciculus and cingulum.
Increases in the ratio of the modelled right to left ventricular end diastolic volumes, signifying the leftward shift of the intraventricular septum seen in APE, compared well with the clinically measured index (R = 0.88).
Going into their study in more detail reveals that their conclusion of increased inotropy at 33°C was based on a leftward shift of the end-systolic pressure volume relationship (end-systolic elastance) during ventricular unloading at a paced heart rate of 100 beats/min.
After embolization, volume loading moved the septum leftward and led to reduced left ventricular area index and left ventricular stroke work.
Left ventricular pressure-volume curves showed a shift upward and leftward, indicating reduced distensibility.
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In another study [ 83], the leftward shift of the LV end-diastolic transmural pressure-volume curve observed at high levels of PEEP in patients with ARDS was related to overestimation of transmural pressure rather than to decreased LV diastolic compliance (Fig. 5).
