Sentences with phrase «ventricle hypertrophy»
Supplementation of creatine and ribose prevents apoptosis and right ventricle hypertrophy in hypoxic hearts.
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«Although the link between traffic - related air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the effects of traffic - related air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
Take, for example, a condition called cardiac hypertrophy, in which the left ventricle, one of the two major chambers of the heart, increases in size and thickness, usually in concert with weight gain and hypertension.
Hypertrophy (thickening) of the ventricles can occur secondary to certain other diseases in cats (such as hyperthyroidism and hypertension), but most cases are idiopathic (i.e., have no obvious underlying cause) and are considered primary diseases of the heart itself.
As previously mentioned, additional tests might be needed to rule out underlying diseases such as systemic hypertension or hyperthyroidism which may cause similar hypertrophy of the left ventricle as HCM.
As previously mentioned, hypertrophy of the heart muscle affects the ability of the left ventricle to relax properly, and therefore, function appropriately.
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.
From the exam we have found severe left heart volume overloud with eccentric hypertrophy of the left ventricle.
We found eccentric hypertrophy of the left and right ventricles, left and right atrial dilation, thickening and prolapse of the mitral valve.
Bony compression, progresive meningeal hypertrophy and dural fibrosis cause; several different neurological dysfunction like cerebellovestibuler disfunction, cervical myelopathy, seizure activity, syringomyelia, ventricle dilatation and hydrocephalus
On echocardiographic examination we have found eccentric hypertrophy of the left and right ventricles, paradoxical motion of the ventricular septum (fig 7), mitral and tricuspid regurgitation with gradient — 118 mmHg and 42 mmHg respectively.
Since systemic hypertension is also a cause for thickening of the left ventricle, blood pressure measurement is required to distinguish hypertension from primary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) as a cause for ventricular hypertrophy (thickening) in cats.