Fig. 14From: Pathophysiology of right ventricular failure in acute pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a pictorial essay for the interventional radiologistDiagram demonstrates adaptive and maladaptive RV wall thickening. The RV wall progressively thickens then becomes necrotic and fibrotic as coronary arteries cannot meet the demands of the RV wallBack to article page