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right ventricular failure; right heart failure

Etiology: - cor pulmonale - pulmonary hypertension - right ventricular myocardial infarction - may be associated with inferior wall myocardial infarction [2] - left ventricular failure Pathology: - diminished left ventricular preload & cardiac output Clinical manifestations: - jugular venous distension (elevated central venous pressure) - clear lung fields Management: - push normal saline (several liters) to restore right ventricular contractility & left ventricular preload [2] - avoid pressors until volume expansion produces pulmonary edema [2]

Related

pulmonary hypertension right ventricular myocardial infarction (MI)

Specific

acute right ventricular failure; cor pumonale chronic right ventricular failure; cor pumonale cor pulmonale

General

heart failure (HF)

References

  1. Ibrahim BS E-Journal of Cardiology Practice. Vol.14,No 32 - 12 Dec 2016 https://www.escardio.org/Journals/E-Journal-of-Cardiology-Practice/Volume-14/Right-ventricular-failure
  2. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 19 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2022