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Chapter-06 Chamber Quantification: Right Ventricle

BOOK TITLE: Textbook of Echocardiography

Author
1. Mehrotra Rahul
ISBN
9789352700929
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/14136_7
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2018
Pages
8
Author Affiliations
1. Medanta Heart Institute, Medanta–The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Medanta Heart Institute, Medanta—The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India, Medanta—The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Non-Invasive Cardiology, Max Superspecialty Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India, Max Superspecialty Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India, Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi, India, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India, Max Superspecialty Hospital, New Delhi, India
Chapter keywords
Right ventricle, RV, right atrium, RA, left ventricle, RV systolic dysfunction, heart disease, RV wall thickness, echocardiographic view

Abstract

The right ventricle (RV) occupies a key position in the circulation. It receives blood from the right atrium (RA) and pumps it to the pulmonary circulation for oxygenation. The evaluation of right ventricle by echo has thus lagged behind the left ventricle. This chapter covers the problems with RV assessment, echocardiographic views, measurement of RV linear dimensions, measurement of RV wall thickness, volumetric assessment of RV, measurement of RV systolic function, and measurement of RV diastolic function. Presence of RV systolic dysfunction is a powerful predictor of prognosis in cardiopulmonary diseases. Even in left heart disease, presence of RV dysfunction provides incremental prognostic information. Assessment of the diastolic function of RV in many ways is quite similar to that of the LV except that RA area, volume and strain have not been studied so well as in the case of LV where the utility of LA area, volume and strain have been demonstrated and is applied in clinical practice.

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