Right Heart-Pulmonary Circulation Unit in Congenital Heart Diseases

Inga Voges; Mouaz H Al-Mallah; Giancarlo Scognamiglio; Giovanni Di Salvo

doi:10.1016/j.hfc.2018.02.005

Right Heart-Pulmonary Circulation Unit in Congenital Heart Diseases

Heart Fail Clin. 2018 Jul;14(3):283-295. doi: 10.1016/j.hfc.2018.02.005.

Authors

Inga Voges¹, Mouaz H Al-Mallah², Giancarlo Scognamiglio³, Giovanni Di Salvo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust, London, UK.
² National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
⁴ Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: giodisal@yahoo.it.

PMID: 29966627
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2018.02.005

Abstract

The right ventricle plays a major role in congenital heart disease. This article describes the right ventricular mechanics in some selected congenital heart diseases affecting the right ventricle in different ways: tetralogy of Fallot, Ebstein anomaly, and the systemic right ventricle.

Keywords: Congenital heart disease; Ebstein anomaly; Right ventricle; Tetralogy of Fallot.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Echocardiography / methods
Heart Defects, Congenital / physiopathology*
Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Heart Ventricles / physiopathology*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / methods
Pulmonary Circulation / physiology*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / etiology*