title: Right heart failure: toward a common language.
abstract: In this perspective, the International Right Heart Foundation Working Group moves a step forward to develop a common language to describe the development and defects that exemplify the common syndrome of right heart failure. We first propose fundamental definitions of the distinctive components of the right heart circulation and provide consensus on a universal definition of right heart failure. These definitions will form the foundation for describing a uniform nomenclature for right heart circulatory failure with a view to foster collaborative research initiatives and conjoint education in an effort to provide insight into echanisms of disease unique to the right heart.
authors.affiliation: Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mmehra@partners.org.
authors.forename: Mandeep R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Mehra
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Myung H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Landzberg
authors.affiliation: Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Anuradha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lala
authors.affiliation: Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Aaron B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Waxman
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends; D001775:Blood Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: anatomy; classification; etiology; physiology; pulmonary circulation; pulmonary hypertension; right heart failure; right ventricle