Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this cross-sectional study utilizing electrocardiography (ECG) and 2D echocardiography, Munje and colleagues ...

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 ...

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 ...

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are promising therapeutics for various forms of cardiac diseases. The purpose of this study was to assess cardiac HDAC catalytic activity and expression in ...

Echocardiographic studies in population-based samples or hypertensive cohorts show that a number of metabolic risk factors and the full expression of MS are associated with increased LV mass and LVH ...

In this tracing, QRS axis tends to the right axis deviation (RAD), which should make one think of right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) first. After the RAD, all other diagnostic features of RVH are ...

Overview Examination and Palpation of the Apical Impulse (Point of Maximal Impulse) Palpation Percussing the Cardiac Silhouette Special Maneuvers Examination and Palpation of the Apical Impulse (Point ...

Modulating miR-21 signaling may work to reduce heart damage in people with pulmonary hypertension (PH), a preclinical study suggests.

Long-term high-intensity physical activity is associated with morphological changes, termed as the ‘athlete's heart’. The differentiation of physiological cardiac adaptive changes in response to ...