Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as ...

Aim Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when the athlete presents with ... (range 49–63)), normal systolic and diastolic function, an enlarged left atrial ...

The heart has to work harder to pump the blood into the arteries against the increased pressure. The increased workload ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening ... electrical activity takes longer to traverse throughout the whole heart, thus the duration of the QRS complex may be widened.