The Right Ventricle in Health and Disease (Respiratory Medicine)

__The Right Ventricle in Health and Disease__ provides a comprehensive and up-to-date database and collection of the available information which describes the structure and function of the normal right ventricle. The right ventricular performance and function reserve has now finally moved to the center of the stage as clinicians recognize that the drugs presently used to treat patients with severe pulmonary hypertension do not necessarily improve the performance of the right ventricle and because the survival depends on the right ventricular function that treatment strategies need to be developed to primarily protect the right ventricle from failing. In-depth chapters discuss right heart function and failure in patients with congenital heart diseases, review modern imaging techniques used to describe right ventricular form and function in patients with right heart failure (including cardiac MRI and PET scanning), describe ventricular interdependence: the left ventricle in pulmonary hypertension and discuss the concept of the sick lung circulation and its contribution to right heart failure. Treatment strategies of chronic right heart failure including drugs and mechanical devices are also discussed. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Normal Development and Morphology of the Right Ventricle: Clinical Relevance....Pages 3-18 Physiology of the Right Ventricle....Pages 19-40 The Neonatal Transition of the Right Ventricle....Pages 41-56 Advanced Imaging of the Right Ventricle....Pages 57-75 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Subpulmonary Right Ventricle in Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 79-101 The Systemic Right Ventricle in Biventricular and Univentricular Circulation....Pages 103-115 Right Ventricle in Structural and Functional Left Heart Failure in Children....Pages 117-133 Missing a Sub-pulmonary Ventricle: The Fontan Circulation....Pages 135-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Acute Right Ventricular Failure....Pages 161-205 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Echocardiography of Chronic Right Heart Failure....Pages 209-248 Hemodynamic Evaluation and Exercise Testing in Chronic Right Ventricular Failure....Pages 249-263 Cardiac MRI and PET Scanning in Right Ventricular Failure....Pages 265-281 The Pathobiology of Chronic Right Ventricular Failure....Pages 283-301 The Sick Lung Circulation and the Failing Right Ventricle....Pages 303-313 Exercise-Induced Right Heart Disease in Athletes....Pages 315-335 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC)....Pages 337-360 The Right Ventricle in Left Heart Failure....Pages 361-390 The Right Ventricle in Chronic Lung Diseases....Pages 391-399 Treatment of Chronic Right Heart Failure....Pages 401-418 Atrial Septostomy....Pages 419-437 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Right Ventricular Assist Devices....Pages 439-454 Animal Models of Chronic Right Ventricular Stress and Failure....Pages 455-469 Back Matter....Pages 471-488