CHAPTER 15: THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

Causes. Pump (Myocardial) Failure of the Right Ventricle. Heart muscle is flabby and weak for unknown causes (so-called “idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy” or DCM) A heart-muscle disease of the right ventricle accompanied by irregular heartbeats (arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy) ................
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