WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...

Details of our study protocol have been previously described. 8 In brief, this community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in XinYang County, located in the middle region of China from 2004 to ...

Background A 64-year-old male was observed as an outpatient with atypical, non-exercise-induced chest pain and palpitations. He had arterial hypertension and marked concentric left ventricular ...

Myocardial fibrosis is a hallmark of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a proposed substrate for arrhythmias and heart failure. In animal models, profibrotic genetic pathways are activated early, before ...

Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) occurs when the right ventricular wall thickens due to chronic pressure overload, similar to that of left ventricular hypertrophy. Right ventricular hypertrophy is ...

Daniel L. Jacoby, Eugene C. DePasquale and William J. McKenna Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common inherited cardiomyopathy, occurring in about 1 in 500 individuals.1 The first gene mutation for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LV hypertrophy without high BP increased risk for CV events, CV death and HF hospitalization. The dual ...

Patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at intermediate and high risk for surgery who, after TAVR, have a larger regression in left ventricular mass at 1 year will then go on to have ...

Premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) are extra heartbeats originating from the heart’s lower chambers, potentially causing palpitations or fluttering sensations. While occasional PVCs are common, ...

A man found dead in the Stark County Jail last spring died from natural causes, the Stark County Coroner’s Office said. His family disagrees.