Haemodynamic changes in different vascular territories in patients with cirrhosis at rest
| ↑, increase; →, no change; ↓, decrease. |
| Systemic circulation |
| Plasma volume ↑ |
| Total blood volume ↑ |
| Non-central blood volume ↑ |
| Central and arterial blood volume ↓ (→) |
| Cardiac output (→) ↑ |
| Arterial blood pressure → ↓ |
| Heart rate ↑ |
| Systemic vascular resistance ↓ |
| Heart |
| Left atrial volume ↑ |
| Left ventricular volume → (↑) |
| Right atrial volume → ↑ ↓ |
| Right ventricular volume → ↑ ↓ |
| Right atrial pressure → ↑ |
| Right ventricular end diastolic pressure → |
| Pulmonary artery pressure →↑ |
| Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure → |
| Left ventricular end diastolic pressure → |
| Pulmonary circulation |
| Pulmonary blood flow ↑ |
| Pulmonary vascular resistance ↓ (↑) |