Not exact matches
«You can cut a third
of the
heart ventricle off and it will regenerate in about 30 to 60 days and
become almost unrecognizable from the original,» Dr. Godwin explained to me when I visited his lab.
It has taken them two years now to finally be willing to address the weight issues which resulted from the hormonal imbalances as a result perhaps
of menopause however as a result
of the extreme weight gains the bottom
of my lungs collapsed, I have now
become diabetic and I have horribly high cholesterol as well as they have found something wrong with my right
ventricle in my
heart.
A Brazilian doctor, Dr. Randas Batista, came up with the technique
of slicing off a piece
of the left
ventricle so that the
heart would actually be smaller and therefore
become more efficient.
Over time, the muscle
of one
of the major
heart chambers (the left
ventricle)
becomes thickened, as the
heart has to work harder to pump the blood when there is high blood pressure.
HCM is a primary
heart muscle disease where the muscular walls
of the
ventricles become abnormally thickened (hypertrophied.)
In this condition, the walls
of the left
ventricle — the
heart chamber responsible for pumping blood out through the aorta —
become progressively thicker.
Eventually, the tricuspid valve may
become misshapen enough that it no longer completely closes the opening between the atrium and the
ventricle at the proper time during the contraction cycle
of the
heart.
The
heart muscle has
become so thickened that the left
ventricle chamber is too small to allow an adequate amount
of blood to flow into it (diastole) before it contracts (systole) and perfuses the cells
of the body.
Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease
of the pumping chamber (
ventricle)
of the
heart where the muscle
becomes weakened and the contraction
of the
heart is decreased.
The most common
heart disease in cats, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a
heart muscle disease in which the walls
of the
heart, specifically the left
ventricle,
become abnormally thickened.