Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is when the heart’s main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, becomes thicker and less able to pump blood efficiently. It usually develops because of another heart ...

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 ...

Frank’s laboratory results — including electrolytes, blood urea nitrogen, and fasting blood glucose — are all within normal limits. His creatinine clearance (CrCl) is moderately impaired at 50 mL/min.

Tam Duc Heart Hospital. Doppler echocardiogram. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Increases in FGF23 may lead to cardiac remodeling in these patients, ...

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 ...

Background. A 61-year-old man presented with shortness of breath and chest pain on exertion. He had been diagnosed as having hiatus hernia 2 years previously and was taking proton-pump inhibitors as ...

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 ...

Background: The cardiac characteristics of various types of athletes have been defined by echocardiography. Athletes involved in predominately static exercise, such as bodybuilders, have been found to ...

Elevated left ventricular mass, known as left-ventricular hypertrophy, is a stronger predictor of coronary artery disease-related death and heart failure than coronary artery calcium score, according ...