Anatom3DWall of left side of heart
Paries lateris sinistri cordis · Stěna levé strany srdce
Muscles
Looks like
The walls of the right atrium and right ventricle, thinner than on the left because they pump at lower pressure.
What it does
Collect blood from the body and pump it into the lungs to pick up oxygen.
Keeping it well
Right heart strain shows as swollen ankles, a swollen belly and breathlessness; these need a doctor.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Botulism
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart failure
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tetanus
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome