Kyriakos Anastasiadis
Stephen Westaby
Polychronis Antonitsis
Editors

2015

Right ventricular function, though neglected for many years, attracted scientific attention lately. Numerous experimental and clinical data is currently accumulated, however dispersed, in the literature. This prompted us to summarize in this book the fundamental principles of right heart physiology and pharmacology, diagnostic tools, and strategies to define right heart failure.