The Right Ventricle in Health and Disease

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Voelkel, Norbert F. (Editor ), Schranz, Dietmar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Humana, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Respiratory Medicine,
Temas:
Respiratory organs-Diseases.
Cardiology.
Pneumology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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