What does RV stand for?

Right Ventricle

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The new modification of the Norwood utilizes a right ventricle to pulmonary artery (RV-to-PA) shunt to connect the functioning right ventricle to the pulmonary artery.

Study comparing two surgeries for infant heart defect shows mixed ...

The tricuspid valve is located between the right ventricle and the right atrium 2.

How Your Heart Works

Then a channel is created so the blood can flow more freely from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, which carries the blood to the lungs.

The Rastelli procedure

Byline: shankar203 The company said that the Durata lead incorporates a soft silicone tip with a larger surface area and a slightly curved right ventricle shock coil intended to enhance ease of use and handling for physicians implanting an implantable cardioverter defibrillator system in patients at risk for dangerously fast heart rhythms.

Japan : St Jude Medical announces Japanese approval of Durata ...

From there, blood empties into the right ventricle underneath.

Aortic Stenosis-Causes and Symptoms of Aortic Stenosis

The pulmonary valve directs blood flow from the heart's right ventricle to the lungs.

Travel Health & Environment Watch

The blood then goes to the right ventricle through the tricuspid orifice.

What Is Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)?

The device works by helping the right ventricle of the heart to pump blood to the lungs and the left ventricle to pump blood to the body.

Three-year-old Abigail's mechanical heart operation is a world first