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 ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was first described in the late 1950s as a disease typified by substantial thickening of the myocardium, particularly the left ventricular wall, with no overt cause.

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 ...

bundle branch blocks and ventricular preexcitation or Wolff-Parkinson-White complexes 2,3. VPCs have a broad etiology. They are often seen in dogs with primary myocardial damage that can produce ...

A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Södersjukhuset shows that advanced ultrasound imaging analyses cannot identify patients who would benefit from beta-blocker treatment after a ...

Myocardial infarction remains one of the leading causes of mortality, which is usually complicated by the occurrence of ischemic ventricular arrhythmias, which in turn increase the risk of sudden ...