Heart Ventricles

Relating Components of Pressure-Volume Area in Suga’s Formulation of Cardiac Energetics to Components of the Stress-Time Integral

The concept of pressure-volume area (PVA) in whole heart studies is central to the phenomenological description of cardiac energetics proposed by Suga and colleagues (Physiol Rev 70: 247-277, 1990). PVA consists of two components: an approximately rectangular work loop (W) and an approximately triangular region of potential energy (U). In the case of isovolumic contractions, PVA consists entirely of U. The utility of Suga's description of cardiac energetics is the observation that the oxygen consumption of the heart (Vo(2)) is linearly dependent on PVA.

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