Other names: enlargement of the heart / his part, cardiac hypertrophy
Patient herself can not thickening of heart chambers does not recognize. The doctor may be detected by ECG, touch atypical place apical heart beat or chest X-ray in a comprehensive assessment of the heart.
Is most often found hypertrophy (hypertrophy) of the left ventricle or both ventricles, less frequent phenomenon itself is thickening, or hypertrophy of the right ventricle fibrillation. Thickening of the heart muscle responses to persistent pressure overload (Section cardiac pump blood against the increased resistance) or volume overload (to partition a portion of the blood after contraction returns here or abnormal amount of blood supplied).
The left ventricle is overloaded pressure, arterial hypertension, a high blood pressure due to decreased elasticity of the arteries, narrowing of the aortic valve, aortic narrowing, etc. With the increased volume of blood the left ventricle must cope with insufficient closure of aortic or mitral valve.
Right ventricular hypertrophy can be expected at a high pressure in the pulmonary vascular bed,narrowing of the pulmonary valve, or from the volume reasons, especially when the tricuspid valve insufficiency.
This is a problem associated with many potential complications. Thickened wall of the chambers worse supplied with blood and oxygen supply so serious, that can cause chest pain. Easier also arise myocardial infarction.
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