Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy can be diagnosed on ECG with good specificity. When the myocardium is hypertrophied, there is a larger mass of myocardium for electrical activation to pass through ...

A recent study validated new thresholds for left ventricular hypertrophy to improve both HCM diagnosis and timely treatment ...

left ventricular hypertrophy and increased mortality. This sequence of events can, therefore, justifiably be termed 'cardiorenal syndrome'. In contrast to cardiorenal syndrome, in which the ...

X-ray films of the chest (Fig. 1) and fluoroscopy revealed considerable cardiac enlargement, primarily of the left ventricle, but also of the left atrium, an aneurysm of the ascending aorta ...