BookNorbert F. Voelkel, Dietmar Schranz, editors.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
Introduction
Section I: The Normal Right Ventricle
1. Normal development and morphology of the right ventricle: clinical relevance
2. Physiology of the Right Ventricle
3. The Neonatal Transition of the Right Ventricle
4. Advanced imaging of the right ventricle
Section II: Congenital abnormalities
5. Sub-pulmonary Right Ventricle in Congenital Heart Disease
6. The systemic Right Ventricle in Biventricular and Univentricular Circulation
7. Right Ventricle in structural and functional Left Ventricular Failure in Children
8. Missing a Sub-pulmonary Ventricle: The Fontan Circulation
Section III: Acute Right Heart Failure
9. Acute Right Ventricular Failure
Section IV: Chronic Right Ventricular Failure
10. Echocardiography of Chronic Right Heart Failure
11. Hemodynamic evaluation and exercise testing in chronic right ventricular failure
12. Cardiac MRI and PET scanning in right ventricular failure
13. The pathobiology of chronic right ventricular failure
14. The sick lung circulation and the failing right ventricle
15. Exercise induced right heart disease in athletes
16. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC)
17. The Right Ventricle in Left Heart Failure
18. The Right Ventricle in Chronic Lung Diseases
19. Treatment of Chronic Right Heart Failure
20. Atrial septostomy
21. Right Ventricular Assist Devices
22. Animal models of chronic right ventricular stress and failure
Epilogue
Index.