Anatom3DInflow part of left ventricle
Pars afferens ventriculi sinistri · Přítoková část levé komory
Heart & arteries
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
- 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)
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pulmonary oedema
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome