Mechanical Complications Of MI: Right Ventricular Infarction

Right ventricular infarction typically occurs in the setting of acute right coronary artery occlusion with ST-Elevation MI. In this lesson, we review the basic features of right ventricular infarction.

In this course, you will learn:

• To define the hemodynamics and pathophysiology associated with right ventricular infarction
• To describe the clinical findings in right ventricular infarction with respect to the ECG and clinical features
• To associate the abnormalities measure by right heart catheterization with the patient’s clinical presentation
• To describe the angiographic findings on left ventricullography that suggest a diagnosis of right ventricular infarction