Multiple Choice
During heart failure,
A) the Frank-Starling curve is shifted to the left.
B) the heart pumps out a smaller stroke volume than normal for a given end-diastolic volume.
C) a compensatory increase in sympathetic activity increases the contractility of the heart to normal in the early stages of the disease.
D) both (b) and (c) above.
E) all of these answers.
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