Overview
- Comprehensive review of the structure and function of the right heart
- Discusses the role of the right heart within heart disease in general and lung disease in particular
- Focuses on the clinical aspects of the management of these patients
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Physiology, Pathology and Pathobiology
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Imaging the Right Heart
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Causes of Right Heart Dysfunction
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Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This is an introduction to the clinical phenotypes of normal and abnormal right ventricular function. … The audience includes physicians in training, practicing clinicians, and researchers who require a detailed understanding of the right heart. … This is a well-structured, comprehensive, and well-illustrated reference for any clinician or researcher interested in pulmonary hypertension or right heart dysfunction.” (Alban De Schutter, Doody’s Book Reviews, August, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Right Heart
Editors: Sean P. Gaine, Robert Naeije, Andrew John Peacock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2398-9
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6952-9Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2398-9Published: 12 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 323
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour