Enlargement of one of the heart’s four chambers – the right ventricle – was the best predictor of which patients with severe Covid-19 infections were most likely to die, doctors reported Monday. A ...

Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) is a heart disorder characterized by thickening of the walls of the right ventricle. It can be caused by excessive stress on the right ventricle. Only one section ...

Normally, the aorta (i.e., the main artery transporting blood from our heart to the rest of our body) originates from the left ventricle, while the pulmonary artery, which carries blood from the heart ...

During embryonic development, the right ventricle is formed from the secondary heart field into a crescent-shaped, thin-walled structure. 6 It is the most anterior heart chamber, sitting just beneath ...

It is believed that postmitotic neurons migrate away from their sites of origin in the germinal zones to populate distant targets. Contrary to this notion, we found, using time-lapse imaging of brain ...

Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the right and left ventricles of the heart. This abnormality usually develops before birth and is found most often in infants. The ventricles ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax ...

Brantley Greenwood, the 4-month-old boy from Heflin, Alabama, whose family benefitted from multiple sales of a single rooster ...

The heart is a complex organ with a simple purpose – pump blood in and pump it out again. It does this through an interconnected network of rectangular heart cells called cardiomyocytes that pump ...

Ventricular resection is a type of open-heart surgery to reshape and resize the heart. The surgery may help to improve survival in people with heart failure. Ventricular resection is a surgical ...

Children born with single‑ventricle heart disease, a rare and serious heart defect, often undergo multiple surgeries in their first years of life. A new study shows the challenges for these children ...