Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
J Anat. 2023 Jan;242(1):17-28. doi: 10.1111/joa.13654. Epub 2022 Mar 13.
The right ventricle (RV) is an important structure which serves a multitude of vital physiological functions in health. For many years, the left ventricle has dominated the focus of understanding in both biology and pathophysiology and the RV was felt to be more of a passive structure which rarely had an effect on disease states. However, it is increasingly recognised that the RV is essential to the homoeostasis of normal physiology and disturbances in RV structure and function have a substantial effect on patient outcomes. Indeed, the prognosis of diseases of lung diseases affecting the pulmonary vasculature and left heart disease is intimately linked to the function of the right ventricle. This review sets out to describe the developmental and anatomical complexities of the right ventricle while exploring the modern techniques employed to image and understand its function from a clinical perspective.
右心室(RV)是一个重要的结构,在健康状态下具有多种重要的生理功能。多年来,左心室一直主导着生物学和病理生理学理解的焦点,而右心室被认为是一个更被动的结构,很少对疾病状态产生影响。然而,人们越来越认识到,右心室对于正常生理的动态平衡至关重要,而右心室结构和功能的紊乱对患者的预后有重大影响。事实上,肺部疾病和左心疾病影响肺血管的疾病的预后与右心室的功能密切相关。这篇综述旨在描述右心室的发育和解剖复杂性,同时探讨从临床角度成像和理解其功能所采用的现代技术。