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The Right Ventricle in Health and Disease

  • Comprehensive and up-to-date database resource
  • Treatment strategies are presented
  • First volume solely dedicated to the right ventricle
  • Includes a URL to online video clips that augment the text
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The Normal Right Ventricle

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Normal Development and Morphology of the Right Ventricle: Clinical Relevance

      • Adriana L. Gittenberger-de Groot, Robert E. Poelmann, Rebecca Vicente-Steijn, Margot M. Bartelings, Harm Jan Bogaard, Monique R. M. Jongbloed
      Pages 3-18
    3. Physiology of the Right Ventricle

      • Robert Naeije, Ryan J. Tedford, François Haddad
      Pages 19-40
    4. The Neonatal Transition of the Right Ventricle

      • Michael V. Di Maria, Steven H. Abman
      Pages 41-56
    5. Advanced Imaging of the Right Ventricle

      • Titus Küehne
      Pages 57-75
  3. Congenital Abnormalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Subpulmonary Right Ventricle in Congenital Heart Disease

      • Christian Apitz, Heiner Latus, Dietmar Schranz
      Pages 79-101
    3. The Systemic Right Ventricle in Biventricular and Univentricular Circulation

      • Heiner Latus, Christian Apitz, Dietmar Schranz
      Pages 103-115
    4. Right Ventricle in Structural and Functional Left Heart Failure in Children

      • Dietmar Schranz, Heiner Latus, Christian Apitz
      Pages 117-133
    5. Missing a Sub-pulmonary Ventricle: The Fontan Circulation

      • Marc Gewillig, Derize E. Boshoff
      Pages 135-157
  4. Acute Right Heart Failure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
    2. Acute Right Ventricular Failure

      • Anthony R. Cucci, Jeffrey A. Kline, Tim Lahm
      Pages 161-205
  5. Chronic Right Ventricular Failure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
    2. Echocardiography of Chronic Right Heart Failure

      • Florence H. Sheehan, Per Lindqvist
      Pages 209-248
    3. Hemodynamic Evaluation and Exercise Testing in Chronic Right Ventricular Failure

      • Onno A. Spruijt, Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf, Harm J. Bogaard
      Pages 249-263
    4. Cardiac MRI and PET Scanning in Right Ventricular Failure

      • Mariëlle C. van de Veerdonk, J. Tim Marcus, Harm-Jan Bogaard, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf
      Pages 265-281
    5. The Pathobiology of Chronic Right Ventricular Failure

      • Norbert F. Voelkel, Jose Gomez-Arroyo, Antonio Abbate, Harm J. Bogaard
      Pages 283-301
    6. Exercise-Induced Right Heart Disease in Athletes

      • David Prior, Andre La Gerche
      Pages 315-335

About this book

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 pulmonaryhypertension 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

    Norbert F. Voelkel

  • Pediatric Heart Center, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

    Dietmar Schranz

About the editors

Norbert F. Voelkel, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Medicine
Richmond, VA, US.

Dietmar Schranz
Justus-Liebig University
Pediatric Heart Center
Giessen, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Right Ventricle in Health and Disease

  • Editors: Norbert F. Voelkel, Dietmar Schranz

  • Series Title: Respiratory Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1065-6

  • Publisher: Humana New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1064-9Published: 30 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1065-6Published: 29 October 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2197-7372

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 488

  • Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Cardiology

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eBook USD 149.00
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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