Part 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 -- Part II. Congenital Abnormalities -- 5. Subpulmonary Right Ventricle in Congenital Heart Disease -- 6. The Systemic Right Ventricle in Biventricular and Univentricular Circulation -- 7. Right Ventricle in Structural and Functional Left Heart Failure in Children -- 8. Missing a Sub-pulmonary Ventricle: The Fontan Circulation -- Part III. Acute Right Heart Failure -- 9. Acute Right Ventricular Failure -- Part 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.