Sentences with phrase «enlarged ventricles»

MRI scans showed enlarged ventricles while autopsies revealed atrophied brains with lower weights.

Three quarters of the published studies have found enlarged ventricles in schizophrenics; one quarter have not.

Placing a shunt or tube in the ventricles — The placement of a shunt in the brain allows our team to drain the spinal fluid that has built up in the ventricles and direct it to other parts of the body, alleviating the enlarged ventricles that have caused the condition.

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This buildup of fluids can cause the ventricles in the brain to enlarge.

The findings could have an impact on the tests and measurements that physicians rely on to diagnose and treat two heart conditions: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick, and non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, in which the heart's ability to pump blood decreases as the organ's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, is enlarged and its muscle thinned.

Temple Grandin's enlarged left ventricle is a sign of abnormalities in her left hemisphere, which typically handles language, and may account for the difficulties she has with processing words.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

However, the ventricles, chambers within the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid, are noticeably enlarged.

When the one of these lincRNA, called megamind, is reduced in zebrafish, the embryos have abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles, as indicated by the arrow.

By the late stages of the disease, the brain is visibly shrunken and the ventricles - fluid filled spaces within the brain - are very enlarged compared to the brains of people without the mutation.

Reduction of one of the lincRNAs, which they called cyrano, caused the zebrafish to have enlarged snouts, small heads and eyes, and short, curly tails, while the zebrafish lacking the lincRNA they called megamind had abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles.

In later stages of disease, the left ventricle and veins of the lungs are generally enlarged as well.

On the left is a graphic representation of a normal left ventricle and on the right is an enlarged (concentric hypertrophy) left ventricle as noted in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

As blood continues to be regurgitated and flow back into the atrium, the blood volume in both the atrium will increase, causing both the atrium and the ventricle to become enlarged.

«Nova has been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, indicated by an enlarged left ventricle, decreased systolic function and supraventricular premature complexes (arrhythmia),» said Dr. Seth Oster, an avian veterinarian at the raptor center and the college's Wilford and Kate Bailey Small Animal Teaching Hospital.

The echocardiogram showed an enlarged papillary muscle in the ventricles.

The X-rays of the chest were highly suggestive for e left sided congestive heart failure and showed mild generalized cardiomegaly with a VHS of 11.5 with enlarged left atrium and left ventricle.

Unable to empty properly into the left ventricle, the left atrium becomes enlarged with extra blood, which begins to sludge and then clot.

The enlarged heart is characterized by pale streaks and dilated ventricles.

In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the muscle of the left ventricle is abnormally enlarged or thickened.

It is characterized by an enlarged and poorly contracting left ventricle.

Ultrasound evaluations through the fontanel can reveal dilated or enlarged brain ventricles (open areas in each half of the brain).