Right ventricular hypertrophy occurs when the right ventricular wall thickens due to chronic pressure overload, similar to that of left ventricular hypertrophy. RVH is diagnosed on ECG in the ...

Men with PAH had a larger right heart size and worse survival than women, independent of body size and functional status, a ...

The ventricles pump the blood out of the heart to the lungs or around the body. The septum separates the right-hand and left-hand side of the heart. The tricuspid valve separates the right atrium ...

During right heart catheterization, oxygen saturations are frequently measured from different cardiac chambers in order to identify left to right shunts. If a ventricular septal defect is present ...

Women are more likely to have pulmonary arterial hypertension, but men tend to have worse outcomes and worse treatment responses.

Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...

The first biohybrid model of human ventricles has been used to answer a centuries-old question. Unlike other organs, the heart cannot repair itself after injury, so being able to engineer an entire ...

The ventricles pump the blood out of the heart to the lungs or around the body. The septum separates the right-hand and left-hand side of the heart. The tricuspid valve is located between the ...