Protecting the Right Ventricle Network (PRORVNet): Time to Defend the ‘Forgotten Ventricle’?

Historically, insight into the right ventricle's (RV) role in health and disease has lagged behind that of the left ventricle. It is easy to stigmatize the RV as a passive conduit of the heart and thus regarding it as less important given that it only pumps blood into a single organ, the lungs. However, the circulatory system is a complex closed system, and requires both ventricles to interdependently work together. The failure of one deleteriously affects the performance of the other.1 Therapeutic management of RV dysfunction has also lagged behind that of the left ventricle.
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Source Type: research