The forgotten right ventricle in cardio-oncology

Diabetic cardiomyopathy in Zucker diabetic fatty rats: the forgotten right ventricle

BACKGROUND In patients with myocardial infarction or heart failure, right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is associated with death, shock and arrhythmias. In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, structural and functional alterations of the left ventricle (LV) are highly prevalent, however, little is known about the impact of diabetes on RV characteristics. The purpose of the present study was t...

Cardio-oncology for the 21st century: introduction.

Clinical manifestations of right ventricle involvement in inferior myocardial infarction

Abstract Background: Early diagnosis of right ventricle (RV) involvement in inferior myocardial infarction (Inf MI) is very critical. This study was performed to evaluate the clinical findings of Inf MI with or without RV infarction. Methods: From September 2010 to September 2012, 195 patients with definite diagnosis of Inf MI were evaluated in the Department of Cardiology, in Babol, north of...

Building the right ventricle.

Abnormal development of the arterial pole of the heart underlies a significant fraction of congenital heart defects. Critical steps in arterial pole development are formation of the myocardial outflow tract (or conotruncal region) and its subsequent division into separate left and right ventricular outlets. Division of the cylindrical outflow tract is a complex morphogenetic process driven by c...

The Two-Chambered Right Ventricle

THE DIVISION of the right ventricle into two chambers by aberrant, hypertrophied muscular bands is a relatively rare congenital cardiac malformation. No reports have been found that describe the details of anatomic structure and hemodynamics in this anomaly, although Keith, Rowe, and Vlad' and Kjellberg et al.2 alluded to this malformation in their texts. Grant, Downey, and MacMahon3 described ...