Right Ventricle in Health and Disease

Norbert F. Voelkel, MD Virginia Commonwealth UniversityDepartment of MedicineRichmond, VA, US.Dietmar SchranzJustus-Liebig UniversityPediatric Heart CenterGiessen, Germany.

• 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.