Sudden death is a possible consequence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Quantification of the risk of sudden death, however, remains imprecise for most patients with this disease. Over a mean ...

Elevated systemic blood pressure, and the attendant development of pathologic left ventricular ... hypertrophy. However, it is uncertain whether reduced efficiency correlates with LV wall thickness.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease characterized by abnormal myocardial hypertrophy ... by symmetrical increase in left ventricular (LV) wall thickness with normal LV dimension.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH ... and patterns: LV wall thickness exceeding 15 mm in any myocardial segment and asymmetric septal hypertrophy (the ratio of septal to posterior wall thickness >1.3 ...

During this test, doctors see thickening (hypertrophy ... doctors will look at a patient's left ventricle (lower heart chamber). If the patient's left ventricle is hypertrophied or thickened (usually ...

Subjects with overt hypertrophic cardiomyopathy had a significantly greater left ventricular wall thickness (76% with asymmetric septal hypertrophy), smaller left ventricular cavity, and larger ...

gmail.com Background Left ventricular ... the range of observed strain and SR values (95% observed range) differed only marginally between the three groups. Stepwise multiple regression analysis ...

1 Clinical Centra of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation of Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia 2 Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia 3 Medical Service of Georgian ...

It’s a condition called left ventricular ... they found that ventricular hypertrophy was nearly double that of whites and the increase in heart-wall thickness among blacks was 2½ times that ...

Geometry Asymmetric hypertrophy out of proportion ... disease is characterized by symmetrical increase in left ventricular (LV) wall thickness with normal LV dimension. In athlete's heart, there ...