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 ...

Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the left ventricular myocardium is non-compliant and not able to accept blood return in a normal fashion from the left atrium. This can be a normal physiologic ...

The study included 1,436 patients with preserved left ventricular function after a myocardial infarction. Of these, 324 patients could not be analyzed due to poor image quality or incompatible ...

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 ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) is an uncommonly suspected cause of morbidity in children. This retrospective case series study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence and etiologies of MI in the ...

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 ...