Right Ventricular Failure | New England Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New
England Journal of Medicine homepage Advanced Search SEARCH SPECIALTIES Cardiology …

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare dyspnoea-fatigue syndrome caused by a
progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance and eventual right ventricular (RV) …

Background: The ratios of tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE)/
echocardiographically measured systolic pulmonary artery pressure (PASP), fractional area …

Pulmonary hypertension, defined as an elevation in blood pressure in the pulmonary
arteries, is associated with an increased risk of death. The prevalence of pulmonary …

Interest in the pathophysiology, etiology, management, and outcomes of patients with
tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has grown in the wake of multiple natural history studies showing …

Background: Transient pulmonary congestion during exercise is emerging as an important
determinant of reduced exercise capacity in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction …

Background The risk of complications, including death, is substantially increased in patients
with pulmonary hypertension (PH) undergoing anaesthesia for surgical procedures …

In the late 19th century, Otto Frank published the first description of a ventricular pressure-
volume diagram, thus laid the foundation for modern cardiovascular physiology. Since then …

Right ventricular (RV) function and its adaptation to increased afterload [RV–pulmonary
arterial (PA) coupling] are crucial in various types of pulmonary hypertension, determining …

Right ventricular (RV) function is the main determinant of symptomatology and prognosis in
pulmonary hypertension (PH)(1). The gold standard method for evaluation of RV function in …