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 ...

Background Left ventricular (LV) mass is closely associated with atherosclerotic heart disease, but the mechanisms are not well defined. This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with ...

Our research focuses on the impact of age on the failing heart, sex differences in heart failure development and treatment ... by the performance of its weakest ventricle, meaning that even in ...

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 ...

Right ventricular hypertrophy occurs when the right ventricular wall thickens due to chronic pressure overload, similar to that of left ventricular hypertrophy. RVH is diagnosed on ECG in the ...

ECG plays an important role in detection of several stroke risk factors/predictors including atrial fibrillation and left ventricular hypertrophy ... the prevention and treatment of stroke.

Treatment with aspirin was started ... of left ventricular wall thickening (a descriptive diagnosis) as left ventricular hypertrophy (a pathological diagnosis). Although most cases of increased ...

The toxicity of amiodarone relegated it to second-line therapy, except for patients with substantial left ventricular hypertrophy or heart failure. This treatment approach is well suited to AF ...

Aldosterone has been shown to cause coronary inflammation, cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial fibrosis, ventricular arrhythmias ... aldosterone antagonists in the treatment of heart failure ...

Cytokinetics (CYTK) announced that AMBER-HFpEF is open to enrollment. AMBER-HFpEF is a Phase 2 randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, ...