Sentences with phrase «ventricular outflow»

(ref1, ref2, ref3) Using echocardiography [= Complete two - dimensional, m - mode, color and spectral Doppler echocardiography = (ref)-RSB-; the drug appeared effective in lowering the abnormally high pressure found within the hearts of these cats (In HCM, your cat's left ventricular outflow tract pressure goes up due to the ballooned muscle blocking the outflow of blood = left ventricular outflow tract (= LVOT obstruction.

Also iatrogenic murmurs can be produced in cats by applying too much pressure with the stethoscope against the highly compliant feline thoracic cage, resulting in compression of the right ventricle and leading to partial right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction.

This is the only technique that will enable you to assess the severity of left ventricular hypertrophy in HCM, as well as confirming the presence of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in HOCM, together with other important risk factors such as left atrial dilation and evidence of spontaneous echo contrast («smoke») or thrombi within the left atrium.

However, approximately one third of cats with HCM have left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction due to systolic anterior motion (SAM) of the mitral valve.

The category of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) is of major interest to us.

Left ventricular outflow tract gradient is associated with reduced capillary density in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy irrespective of genotype.

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27 percent reduction in conotruncal defects, or severe heart outflow tract abnormalities; 23 percent reduction in coarctation of the aorta — a narrowing of the major artery (the aorta) that carries blood to the body; 15 percent reduction in atrial and ventricular septal defects — holes in the wall separating heart chambers; however, no changes were seen with regard to chromosomally associated defects — abnormality in the number of an infant's chromosomes.