Right ventricular hypertrophy: A new “risk factor” for right ventricular infarction?
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Right ventricular hypertrophy: a new "risk factor" for right ventricular infarction?
The right ventricle is a somewhat strange organ; it seems to function as a pump quite well even when its wall is deliberatelydestroyed by a cautery or when its blood supply is severely compromised. Infarction of the right ventricle was long considered rare. on the assumption that the low pressure system had a low oxygen requirement. In recent years. following the report of Cohn et al. (I), it h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(87)80117-1