Acute Right Ventricular Failure: Is It the Worst Failure to Have?

Jorge Velazco, MD, FCCP presents on the pathophysiology of right ventricular failure. Watch this video to:
- Learn basic concepts of right ventricular failure
- Learn causes and pathophysiology of right ventricular failure
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[@sexsiffror]

Would be great to get a hold of the reference material

[@samliu8908]

I’m sure the lecturer is knowledgable but the explanation can definitively be more clear..instead of reading from crowded slides..

[@jorgemino8637]

Plesse turn on the Subtitles Thansk

[@ritchie9872]

My right ventricle has become enlarged, I suspect due to sleep apnea. My oxygen level would drop dramatically low at night, down into the 80s and even the 70s. I'm now using a CPAP, so my oxygen levels are now in the mid-90s while I sleep. I'm hoping to reverse the right ventricle enlargement. I've had echocardiograms showing the right ventricle is larger than the left ventricle. The cardiologist didn't seem alarmed by it because the function was normal. But I knew it was going to eventually lead to right side heart failure, so I had to do my own research.
Monitoring my oxygen level while I slept was an important clue to what was causing the problem.

[@himangshupatgiri9534]

How are you now? Is your right heart well now