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 ...

BACKGROUND: Massive left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but little is understood about its natural history.

Panel A shows a cross-section of a normal heart (top) and an endomyocardial biopsy sample from a normal heart (bottom; with hematoxylin and eosin staining) that shows normal histologic characteristics ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two weeks of metoprolol improved left ventricular outflow tract gradients, symptoms and quality of life compared ...

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 ...

A new deep-learning algorithm can better identify subtle left ventricular (LV) wall geometric measurements on echocardiography than expert physicians, as validated on three international cohorts, a ...

A new study of more than 1,500 British adolescents is the first in the world to assess the association between familial cardiometabolic diseases and the offspring's risk of premature heart damage by ...

Patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at intermediate and high risk for surgery who, after TAVR, have a larger regression in left ventricular mass at 1 year will then go on to have ...