Right Ventricle Failure in Pulmonary Hypertension
By Dr. Abdolghader Pakniyat, peer-reviewed by Dr. Sabrina Berouk. The Central Problem: The Overwhelmed Right Ventricle Think of the heart’s ventricles as two different types of athletes. Pulmonary Hypertension is when the marathon runner is suddenly forced to become a powerlifter. The pulmonary vasculature becomes stiff and high-resistance. The RV, which is not designed for […]