Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is when the heart’s main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, becomes thicker and less able to pump blood efficiently. It usually develops because of another heart ...

Whether the BP load determined by 24-h ambulatory BP is related to specific LV geometric patterns determined by echocardiography and urinary albumin excretion remains unclear. 9 This study was a ...

Hearts of young cyclists show greater exercise-related adaptation, including more left ventricular enlargement and changes on ...

ECG-derived LVH has been strongly linked with the risk of ischemic stroke. [48] LVH also predicts cognitive dysfunction where subclinical stroke is a potential contributor. [49,50] It is even included ...

The electrical measurements on the electrocardiogram can often mislead physicians in diagnosing the heart condition left ventricular hypertrophy, causing other screening tests to be ordered before a ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - An approach based on artificial intelligence (AI) may allow EKGs to be used to screen for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the future. With hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the heart ...

Panel A shows a cross-section of a normal heart (top) and an endomyocardial biopsy sample from a normal heart (bottom; with hematoxylin and eosin staining) that shows normal histologic characteristics ...

WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...