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I'm sorry to see you in such distress. Fortunately, you are receiving critical or urgent care and there is work on you for a diagnosis.
Right ventricle hypertrophy is usually the result of three problems that I know of, but there are surely more: virus leading to some cardiomyopathy, hypertension where the ventricle has to work harder to make more pressure which, in turn, makes it enlarge and stiffen due to the wall thickness, and mitral valve problems like prolapse where it can't pump effectively against a properly closed valve between it and the atrium above when it tries to pressurize blood to get it to rise into the aorta and out to the body. Remember, the heart has to lift blood from the feet, but also get it up to your brain, which uses most of the sugar in your blood and about 20% of the oxygen.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-right-ventricular-hypertrophy-5235601