Left ventricular chamber enlargement and hypertrophy (increased wall thickness) take place in order to maintain a normal forward cardiac output in chronic aortic regurgitation (Heart’s the Heart ...

Ventricular septal defects are classified as ... and can can measure important hemodynamic parameters such as cardiac chamber sizes, the Qp/Qs ratio and pulmonary pressures. Left ventriculography ...

Thanks to medical advancements, young patients with heart conditions are living longer, healthier lives -but this success also brings new challenges. Community ...

Q. Aneurysms are pretty scary things. Do they have any symptoms? A. Aneurysms are artery bulges. And, yes, they are scary because, if they burst, they are lethal. Many victims of a ruptured ...

whereas in a right VAD (RVAD), the inflow cannula is connected to either right atrium or ventricle and the outflow cannula is connected to the pulmonary artery. The pumping chamber can be placed ...

Dextrocardia, levocardia, or mesocardia was seen together with right pulmonary isomerism and complex structural heart defects in the single ventricle spectrum. A dominant chamber of left ...