This book spans topics in both congenital and acquired right heart disease providing readers
with detailed information on the physiology anatomy and myocardial mechanics of the right
ventricle (RV) while describing the use of echo and MRI imaging to diagnose and new
developments in surgery and cardiac catheterization to treat. Right Ventricular Physiology
Adaptation and Failure in Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease includes extensive discussion
of RV-pulmonary interactions pulmonary hypertension and ventricular-ventricular interactions
including specific topics in embryology fetal RV function RV mechanics pathophysiology of RV
adaptation failure molecular aspects of RV dysfunction congenital heart disease pulmonary
arterial hypertension pulmonary valve replacement stem cell and future therapies.¿ It is thus
important reading for all cardiovascular medicine professionals but especially pediatric
cardiologists and surgeons those who manage these patients in the cardiac care unit and
investigators studying the RV.
