Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

Background Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction leads to an increase in pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and potentially right ...

There is a semilunar valve where the aorta leaves the left ventricle and another where the pulmonary artery leaves the right ventricle. Blood vessels leading into and out of the heart There are ...

X-ray examination of the heart revealed enlargement of the left atrium in 9 subjects and of the right ventricle in 7, and a prominent pulmonary-artery segment in 8. The left ventricle was ...

High-level endurance exercise is associated with high cardiac output, which results in high-pulmonary pressures and high right ventricular wall stress. This high RV wall stress may explain findings of ...

Cardiac function is limited by the performance of its weakest ventricle ... Our group uses two models of right heart failure- high altitude induced pulmonary hypertension and a surgical model of ...

By means of right-sided cardiac-catheterization ... to produce a prompt reduction in the pulmonary-artery hypertension associated with failure of the left ventricle. In the 3 patients of the ...

The oxygenated blood then flows into the left ventricle where ... a hole between the right and left ventricles or via a ductus arteriosus connecting the pulmonary artery to the aorta.

There is a semilunar valve where the aorta leaves the left ventricle and another where the pulmonary artery leaves the right ventricle. Blood vessels leading into and out of the heart There are ...