title: Swine hearts: quantitative anatomy of the right ventricle.
abstract: The right ventricle was studied in 75 anatomically normal swine hearts, using, in all, nine geometric and volumetric parameters: ventricular-wall thickness, length of the right-ventricular inflow and outflow tracts, and volume of the right-ventricular inflow and outflow tracts. The data for these parameters were compared with previously published patterns for human hearts and volumetric data were compared with patterns of normality found in human hearts. As in the human heart, the ventricular inflow tract in swine hearts was significantly shorter than the outflow tract (P < 0.0001).
authors.affiliation: Department of Morphological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rodríquez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saucedo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aránega
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Melguizo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prados
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Aránega
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001283:Atrioventricular Node / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D001835:Body Weight; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D009929:Organ Size; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D013552:Swine / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000033:anatomy & histology