Right ventricular changes after left-sided lesions: underlying cardiac mechanics

Echocardiography. 2015 May;32(5):727-30. doi: 10.1111/echo.12872. Epub 2014 Dec 8.

Authors

Gerald Buckberg¹, Navin C Nanda

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

PMID: 25483815
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12872

No abstract available

Keywords: LV dysfunction; RV dysfunction; diastolic dysfunction; helical ventricular myocardial band.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Aortic Coarctation / physiopathology
Aortic Coarctation / surgery
Aortic Coarctation / therapy*
Heart Ventricles / physiopathology*
Humans
Postoperative Complications / physiopathology*