Heart Ventricles

"Heart Ventricles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.

Descriptor ID	D006352
MeSH Number(s)	A07.541.560
Concept/Terms	Heart Ventricles Heart Ventricles Cardiac Ventricles Cardiac Ventricle Ventricle, Cardiac Ventricles, Cardiac Heart Ventricle Ventricle, Heart Ventricles, Heart Right Ventricle Right Ventricle Right Ventricles Ventricle, Right Ventricles, Right Left Ventricle Left Ventricle Left Ventricles Ventricle, Left Ventricles, Left

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Anatomy [A]
Cardiovascular System [A07]
Heart [A07.541]
Heart Ventricles [A07.541.560]

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Bar chart showing 314 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	4	4
1997	1	1	2
1998	3	1	4
1999	6	4	10
2000	3	6	9
2001	1	5	6
2002	2	1	3
2003	5	4	9
2004	3	6	9
2005	4	9	13
2006	4	6	10
2007	4	8	12
2008	2	9	11
2009	6	7	13
2010	7	9	16
2011	7	10	17
2012	6	1	7
2013	20	5	25
2014	12	9	21
2015	11	6	17
2016	7	8	15
2017	6	9	15
2018	9	5	14
2019	8	7	15
2020	6	9	15
2021	0	5	5
2022	1	7	8
2023	0	3	3
2024	2	3	5
2025	1	0	1

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Jain A, Pritting C, Brodie A, Rahimov D, Ahmad D, Rame JE, Alvarez R, Rajagopal K, Entwistle JW, Tchantchaleishvili V. Individual Association of Predicted Left and Right Ventricular Mass Ratios With Survival After Heart Transplantation: A UNOS Database Analysis. Clin Transplant. 2025 Feb; 39(2):e70113.

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Morita Y, Kariya T, Dougherty M, Peters A, Ruggiero N. Potential of right ventricular function assessment with echocardiography in transcatheter aortic valve replacement. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2024 Dec 30; 19(1):686.

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Raad M, Kramer DB, Stabenau HF, Anyanwu E, Frankel DS, Waks JW. Spatial ventricular gradient is associated with pacing-induced cardiomyopathy. Heart Rhythm. 2025 11; 22(11):2887-2894.

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Chico S, Connolly S, Hossain J, Levenbrown Y. Accuracy of Point-Of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound Performed on Patients Admitted to a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Shock. J Clin Ultrasound. 2025 Mar-Apr; 53(3):445-451.

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Isaza N, Stabenau HF, Kramer DB, Sau A, Tung P, Maher TR, Locke AH, Zimetbaum P, d'Avila A, Peters NS, Tereshchenko LG, Ng FS, Buxton AE, Waks JW. The spatial ventricular gradient is associated with inducibility of ventricular arrhythmias during electrophysiology study. Heart Rhythm. 2024 11; 21(11):2160-2167.

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Esposito C, Machado P, McDonald ME, Savage MP, Fischman D, Mehrotra P, Cohen IS, Ruggiero N, Walinsky P, Vishnevsky A, Dickie K, Davis M, Forsberg F, Dave JK. Evaluation of Intracardiac Pressures Using Subharmonic-aided Pressure Estimation with Sonazoid Microbubbles. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2024 02; 6(1):e230153.

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Stabenau HF, Sau A, Kramer DB, Peters NS, Ng FS, Waks JW. Limits of the spatial ventricular gradient and QRST angles in patients with normal electrocardiograms and no known cardiovascular disease stratified by age, sex, and race. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2023 11; 34(11):2305-2315.

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Detterich J, Taylor MD, Slesnick TC, DiLorenzo M, Hlavacek A, Lam CZ, Sachdeva S, Lang SM, Campbell MJ, Gerardin J, Whitehead KK, Rathod RH, Cartoski M, Menon S, Trachtenberg F, Gongwer R, Newburger J, Goldberg C, Dorfman AL. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Determine Single Ventricle Function in a Pediatric Population is Feasible in a Large Trial Setting: Experience from the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial Longitudinal Follow up. Pediatr Cardiol. 2023 Oct; 44(7):1454-1461.

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Hermida U, Stojanovski D, Raman B, Ariga R, Young AA, Carapella V, Carr-White G, Lukaschuk E, Piechnik SK, Kramer CM, Desai MY, Weintraub WS, Neubauer S, Watkins H, Lamata P. Left ventricular anatomy in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: beyond basal septal hypertrophy. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 05 31; 24(6):807-818.

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Dikdan SJ, Co ML, Pavri BB. Dyssynchronous Heart Failure: A Clinical Review. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2022 12; 24(12):1957-1972.

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