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What are some reversible causes of right ventricular enlargement? rest of my.echo is.normal.just mild.rv enlargement?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Right Heart Failure: Right heart failure is from processes that put extra strain on the chamber. Either too much fluid filling or too much pressure to lungs. So pulmonary processes that cause pulmonary htn will enlarge right heart or processes that cause too much fluid to fill heart, some congenital heart disease for example. A good example of correctable right heart disease is sleep apnea.

Answered 6/23/2014

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