RT Book, Section A1 Schroeder, Rebecca A. A1 Bar-Yosef, Shahar A1 Mark, Jonathan B. A2 Mathew, Joseph P. A2 Swaminathan, Madhav A2 Ayoub, Chakib M. SR Print(0) ID 6918155 T1 Chapter 13. Evaluation of Right Heart Function T2 Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2e YR 2010 FD 2010 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-163476-2 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6918155 RD 2024/03/28 AB As the role of the right ventricle (RV) in overall cardiac function has been more fully appreciated, greater efforts have been made to describe and quantify RV function using TEE in ways useful to clinicians. These efforts have been frustrated by the non-geometric, asymmetric shape of the chamber, its sequential contraction pattern, and the obscuring effect of epicardial fat on RV wall motion and thickness. In addition, the RV is exquisitely sensitive to loading conditions, overall pulmonary function, and the interdependence of the two ventricles.