Heart failure secondary to chronic pulmonary arterial hypertension : cardiac imaging and electrophysiologic characteristics

Thesis

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Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: How valid are animal models to evaluate treatments for pulmonary hypertension?

Chapter 3: Sequence of echocardiographic changes during development of right ventricular failure in rat

Chapter 4: Right-to-left ventricular diastolic delay in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is associated with activation delay and action potential prolongation in right ventricle

Chapter 5: Interventricular resynchronization therapy in right ventricular failure : a proof-of-concept study in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Chapter 6: Right ventricular failure secondary to pressure overload is not associated with increased ventricular arrhythmia risk because excitation wavelength is prolonged

Chapter 7: Right ventricular failure due to chronic pressure overload is associated with reduction in left ventricular mass : evidence for atrophic remodeling

Chapter 8: A novel echocardiographic predictor of in-hospital mortality and midterm hemodynamic improvement after pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is associated

Summary

Samenvatting

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