It is unclear why only the right ventricle is involved.

The atria contract, pumping blood into your left and right ventricles.

By teenage and adult age, its walls have thickened to three to six times greater than that of the right ventricle.

The right ventricle is no longer able to push blood into the lungs and eventually fails.

But reduced function of the right ventricle can also occur in heart failure.

It knocked out a good deal of the right ventricle.

The disease affects the right ventricle, the part of the heart that pumps blood to the lungs.

Once the right ventricle is full, it contracts, forcing the blood into the lungs.

In the other case, a fisherman had a barb removed from his right ventricle.

The pressure in the right ventricle tries to open the pulmonary valve.