Right Ventricle: Wrong Targets?

Right ventricle: wrong targets? Another blow for pharmacotherapy in congenital heart diseases.

Right pace, wrong place.

Right cell, wrong cell.

What is wrong with the right ventricle after surgical closure of a ventricular septal defect?

The outcomes of patients after surgical closure of a ventricular septal defect (VSD) performed during infancy or childhood is considered to be excellent with low long-term morbidity and mortality. –3 In most congenital heart centres, patients after surgical VSD closure are discharged from follow-up if there are no known significant residual lesions such as a residual VSD, aortic regurgitation, ...

Left is right, right is wrong.

correspondence correspondence Left is right, right is wrong T he cover illustration of the August 2009 issue of EMBO reports, although aesthetically pleasing, is unfortunately erroneous and could come as a shock to researchers in the chromatin field. Canonical nucleosomes are indeed left-handed, such as the nucleosomes in the left 'column' of chro-matin fibres on the cover. However, in the righ...