Introduction -- Section I: The Normal Right Ventricle -- 1. Normal development and morphology of the right ventricle: clinical relevance -- 2. Physiology of the Right Ventricle -- 3. The Neonatal Transition of the Right Ventricle -- 4. Advanced imaging of the right ventricle -- Section II: Congenital abnormalities -- 5. Sub-pulmonary Right Ventricle in Congenital Heart Disease -- 6. The systemic Right Ventricle in Biventricular and Univentricular Circulation -- 7. Right Ventricle in structural and functional Left Ventricular Failure in Children -- 8. Missing a Sub-pulmonary Ventricle: The Fontan Circulation -- Section III: Acute Right Heart Failure -- 9. Acute Right Ventricular Failure -- Section IV: Chronic Right Ventricular Failure -- 10. Echocardiography of Chronic Right Heart Failure -- 11. Hemodynamic evaluation and exercise testing in chronic right ventricular failure -- 12. Cardiac MRI and PET scanning in right ventricular failure -- 13. The pathobiology of chronic right ventricular failure.-14. The sick lung circulation and the failing right ventricle -- 15. Exercise induced right heart disease in athletes -- 16. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) -- 17. The Right Ventricle in Left Heart Failure -- 18. The Right Ventricle in Chronic Lung Diseases -- 19. Treatment of Chronic Right Heart Failure -- 20. Atrial septostomy -- 21. Right Ventricular Assist Devices -- 22. Animal models of chronic right ventricular stress and failure -- Epilogue -- Index.