Where is the right ventricle?

Where is the right ventricle?

To cite: Oylumlu M, Dogan A, Ercan S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-202760 DESCRIPTION A 20-year-old man with no history of known cardiac disease was admitted with dyspnoea on exertion during a few weeks. His effort capacity was class I. At physical examination, his blood pressure was 120/ 70 mmHg and pulse 80 bpm. His physical exami...

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...

where is the problem?

where is the problem? health scientists are constantly trying to support people by diagnosing, managing the diseases, and improving health in all possible dimensions. attention has been drawn to all aspects of health including biological, psychological, social and spiritual. the problem may lay in behavior, clinical issues, organ cites, genome and epigenome. thus it falls on us, the medical soc...

The bantamweight right ventricle and the Fontan operation. One-two-three and the right ventricle is out ... maybe.

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 ...