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Special Report Right Ventricular Function and Failure Report of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Right Heart Failure Norbert F. Voelkel, MD; Robert A. Quaife, MD; Leslie A. Leinwand, PhD; Robyn J. Barst, MD; Michael D. McGoon, MD; Daniel R. Meldrum, MD; Jocelyn Dupuis, MD, PhD; Carlin S. Long, MD; Lewis J. Rubin, MD; Frank W. Smart, MD; Yuichiro J. Suzuki, PhD; Mark Gladwin, MD; Elizabeth M. Denholm, PhD; Dorothy B. Gail, PhD nowledge about the role of the right ventricle in health pulmonary vascular diseases (cor pulmonale). Other diseases K and disease historically has lagged behind that of the left affect the right ventricle in different ways, including global, left ventricular– , or right ventricular–specific cardiomyopa- ventricle. Less muscular, restricted in its role to pumping thy; right ventricular ischemia or infarction; pulmonary or blood through a single organ, and less frequently or obviously tricuspid valvular heart disease; and left-to-right shunts. involved than the left ventricle in diseases of epidemic proportions such as myocardial ischemia, cardiomyopathy, or The Normal Right Ventricle valvulopathy, the right ventricle has generally been consid- The right ventricle pumps the same stroke volume as the left
Circulation – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Oct 1, 2006
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