RVH is a form of ventricular hypertrophy and when the blood from heart to the lungs circulates not well, extra stress can be placed over it and individual muscles grow larger in thickness to have pulmonary heart disease. Dilatation is the increase in length of the ventricle to acute pressure and resistance for the blood flow.

Heart and lungs are intricately related to each other. Whenever a problem in any of them occurs, other gets problem too.

 

 

There are two pumping chambers in human heart, the left ventricle pumps blood throughout the body and right ventricle pumps to lung to get oxygenated and returned it to left heart for the distribution in whole body. In normal case, heart and lungs work without resistance and there is no or minimum pressure and the right heart easily pumps blood throughout the body.

However, when there is any disease present in lungs like pulmonary hypertension or emphysema, the blood vessels become rigid and they resist blood flow with more pressure.

 

 

The right ventricle becomes unable to provide blood to lungs in normal condition or even fails to provide and this condition is normally recognized as pulmonary disease. Medical name for pulmonary heart disease is Cor Pulmonale.

Recognized symptoms from cardiologists' research are shortness of breath, enlargement of liver, chronic wet cough, bluish color of face, wheezing, presence of abnormal heart sounds, EKG due to hypertrophy and swelling of the abdomen with fluid that is ascites. In many cases, the diagnosis evolves ECG, CT scan, chest X-ray and cardiac cauterization.