Objective To identify adolescent athletes with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and differentiate physiological LVH from HCM. Design Observational follow-up study. Setting: Sports Medicine Clinical ...

Left ventricular chamber enlargement and hypertrophy (increased wall thickness ... of the disease to justify the risk-benefit ratio of surgery, yet early enough to prevent potential irreversible ...

The investigators also discovered that hypertrophy is not always widespread, but can be localized to a single area of the left ventricular ... less likely to undergo surgery, than patients with ...

and left ventricular hypertrophy, as well as other changes in the left ventricular wall that prolong relaxation of the left ventricle in diastole. There is a dropout of atrial pacemaker cells ...

Aortic valve debridement via surgery or ultrasound debridement ... valvuloplasty does not result in regression of left ventricular hypertrophy. In fact, at 6 months after valvuloplasty about ...