Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening ... electrical activity takes longer to traverse throughout the whole heart, thus the duration of the QRS complex may be widened.

A S4 heart sound is also often present due to the severe concentric left ventricular hypertrophy that develops in aortic stenosis. If a S3 heart sound is present, significant systolic dysfunction ...

The hypertrophy was both concentric and eccentric, another unexpected finding for which they do not have a good explanation, he noted. Eccentric hypertrophy usually correlates with volume overload ...