Congenital Diseases in the Right Heart

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Redington, Andrew N. (Editor), Arsdell, Glen S. (Editor), Anderson, Robert H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Family medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Pediatrics.; Heart > Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Cardiac Surgery.; General Practice / Family Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-378-1

A decade ago the right heart had been ignored in terms of its functional contribution to the circulation in acquired and congenital heart disease. While it remains a popular characterization, our understanding of right heart hemodynamics and pathophysiology, and their contribution to cardiac disease...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Basic Topics
• Section 2: Pulmonary Vascular Bed
• Section 3: The Systemic Right Ventricle
• Section 4: Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathies
• Section 5: Acute Right Heart Failure  Perioperative Care
• Section 6: Chronic Right Heart Failure
• Section 7: Tetralogy of Fallot
• Section 8: Ebsteins Anomaly.