Anatom3DInflow part of right ventricle
Pars afferens ventriculi dextri · Přítoková část pravé komory
Muscles
Looks like
The back, lower part of the right ventricle that receives blood through the tricuspid valve; its inner wall is rough with muscle ridges.
What it does
Receives blood returning from the body and starts pushing it toward the lungs.
Keeping it well
Strained by lung disease and blood clots in the lungs. Sudden breathlessness with chest pain is an emergency.
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Botulism
- Brugada syndrome
- 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
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tetanus
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome