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The description of right ventricular myocardial infarction appeared more than 60 years ago,¹ yet for decades it was not considered an important clinical entity, in large part because of studies in animals in which experimentally induced isolated right ventricular damage caused no substantial change in systemic venous pressure, pulmonary pressure, or cardiac output^2,3,4. Twenty years ago Cohn and coworkers⁵ published their classic report on right ventricular infarction as a distinct clinical entity. The condition is now recognized to occur in nearly half of all inferior myocardial infarctions.

Normal Physiology

The right ventricle has the same cardiac output as the left ventricle, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Pathogenesis of Right Ventricular Infarction

Pathophysiology of Right Ventricular Infarction

Diagnosis

The Physical Examination

Hemodynamic Measurements

Electrocardiography

Echocardiography

Nuclear Imaging

Complications

Treatment

Prognosis

Summary

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From the Evans Memorial Department of Clinical Research, Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Ryan at the Section of Cardiology, Boston University Medical Center, 88 E. Newton St., Boston, MA 02118.

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