Right Ventricular Physiology, Adaptation and Failure in Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease

1. Embryological Origins: How Does the Right Ventricle Form
Paul Delgado-Olguín

2. How Does the Pressure-Overloaded Right Ventricle Adapt and Why Does It Fail? Macro-and Micro-Molecular Perspectives
Norbert F. Voelkel

3. Molecular Aspects of Right Ventricular Adaptation to Stress
Sushma Reddy, Daniel Bernstein

4. Genetic Variation and Outcomes in Right Ventricular Congenital Heart Disease
Seema Mital

5. Ventricular-Vascular Coupling in the Pulmonary Circulation
Nicholas E. Hobson, Kendall S. Hunter

6. Right–Left Ventricular Interactions in RV Afterload and Preload
Mark K. Friedberg

7. Computational Study on the Cardiovascular System: Ventricular–Ventricular Interaction and Right Ventricular Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Tammo Delhaas, Theo Arts, Yvette Koeken, Joost Lumens, Georgina Palau-Caballero, John Walmsley

8. Can the Right Ventricle Support the Failing Left Ventricle?
Dietmar Schranz

9. Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Ventricle
Luc L. Mertens

10. Magnetic Resonance Assessment of RV Remodeling and Function
Lars Grosse-Wortmann, Adam L. Dorfman

11. Pulmonary Hypertension in Chronic Neonatal Lung Disease: Mechanisms and Targets
Robert P. Jankov, A. Keith Tanswell

12. Right Ventricular Function in Ebstein’s Malformation
Jan Marek, Marina L. Hughes, Victor Tsang

13. Ebstein’s Malformation: Does Echocardiographic Assessment Determine Surgical Repair?
Norman H. Silverman

14. Single Right Ventricular Function and Failure in the Fontan Circulation
Andrew N. Redington

15. Right Ventricular Dysfunction Post-Heart Transplantation
Jacob Mathew, Anne I. Dipchand

16. Medical Therapy for Chronic Right Ventricular Failure in Congenital Heart Disease
S. Lucy Roche

17. Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement: Impact on Management
Harsimran S. Singh, Lee Benson

18. Can Surgeons Preserve Right Ventricular Function in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome?
Christoph Haller, Christopher A. Caldarone

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Human Physiology, Cardiac Surgery