Anatom3DRight ventricle
Ventriculus dexter · Pravá komora
Veins
Looks like
A thin, crescent-shaped pump wrapped round the thicker left one.
What it does
Pushes blood the short way — into the lungs, at a fifth of the pressure the left side makes.
Keeping it well
Treat lung disease and sleep apnoea; long-standing lung pressure is what wears this chamber out.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Botulism
- Brugada syndrome
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- 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
- Varicose veins
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome