caa a22 4500 388116455 CHVBK 20180307125408.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1047951100008490 doi S1047951100008490 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1047951100008490 Penny Daniel J. Department of Paediatrics, The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and The National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK The basics of ventricular function [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel J. Penny] There has been increasing interest in the study of ventricular function in the patient with congenital heart disease. Numerous indexes have been derived for the assessment of ventricular function, suggesting that none is ideal. While the derivation of some measures of ventricular function have relied on advanced mathematical principles, it is still possible for the non-mathematician to obtain important insights into ventricular function from an assessment of the events which underpin the cardiac cycle. In this review, I use the mechanics of the cardiac cycle to introduce basic concepts of ventricular function for the non-expert. In this way, I analyse ventricular systolic and diastolic performance and describe the contribution of regional variability of function to overall performance. This approach also highlights the role of the ventricle in overall cardiovascular and metabolic homeostasis. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Ventricular function nationallicence cardiac cycle nationallicence systole nationallicence diastole nationallicence Cardiology in the Young Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-03), 210-223 1047-9511 9:2<210 1999 9 CTY https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100008490 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100008490 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Penny Daniel J. Department of Paediatrics, The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and The National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cardiology in the Young Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-03), 210-223 1047-9511 9:2<210 1999 9 CTY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge