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Can indices of left ventricular function be applied to the right ventricle?
L J Dell'Italia1, W P Santamore
1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, UAB Station 35294, USA.
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
|February 5, 1998
Abstract:
This article compares conventional indices of contractile function in the right and left ventricles. The low operating pressures and left ventricles. The low operating pressures and complex geometry complicate evaluation of right ventricular function. However, when the characteristics of its vascular load are taken into account, the complex right ventricular chamber has pump properties that are similar to the high pressure left ventricular chamber.