title: Right ventricular function.
abstract: This article describes the importance of the right ventricle in both the normal circulation, and in the abnormal milieu of previously palliated or corrected congenital heart disease. The latter group represents natural models of abnormal right ventricular loading that do not exist in any other experimental arena, and their study has provided insights into chronic adaptation of the right ventricle, in terms of cardiopulmonary haemodynamics, right-left heart interactions and mechano-electric inter-relationships.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Division of Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada. andrew.redington@sickkids.ca
authors.forename: Andrew N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Redington
mesh_terms: D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D003935:Diagnostic Techniques, Cardiovascular; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D012143:Respiratory Physiological Phenomena; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right / Q000502:physiology*