The Failing Right Heart

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Anastasiadis, Kyriakos (Editor), Westaby, Stephen (Editor), Antonitsis, Polychronis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions affecting the structure and function of the right heart, comprising the right atrium, right ventricle, tricuspid valve, and pulmonary circulation. The right ventricle works against a r...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Anatomy of the failing right heart
• Physiology of the failing right heart
• Pharmacologic approach to the failing right heart
• Echocardiographic evaluation of right heart failure
• Right heart catheterization for the failing right heart
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the failing right heart
• The failing right heart in congenital diseases
• Surgery of the tricuspid valve in right heart failure
• Pulmonary embolism and right heart failure
• Anaesthetic consideration and perioperative management in right heart failure
• Mechanical support and the right heart
• Special considerations.