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Rapid Ventricular Filling

ventricular pressure falls to its lowest level (below atrial pressure), the AV valve opens.

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Rapid Ventricular Filling

Ventricular pressure remains low, because the ventricle is still relaxed and compliant.

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Rapid Ventricular Filling

The rapid flow of blood from the atria to the ventricles produces the third heart sound (S3).

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Third heart sound (S3) 

normal in children but is not heard in normal adults

indicates volume overload, as in congestive heart failure or advanced mitral or tricuspid regurgitation.

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Rapid Ventricular Filling

aortic pressure decreases as blood runs off from the aorta into the arterial tree, to the veins, and then back to the heart.

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Reduced Ventricular Filling (Diastasis)

Longest phase of the cardiac cycle and final portion of ventricular filling, occurs at a slower rate.