Left ventricular structure

The risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) is high in chronic kidney disease patients, and it increases with the progression of… (More)

BACKGROUND Patients with signs and symptoms of heart failure and a normal left ventricular ejection fraction are said to have… (More)

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine the effects of obesity on left ventricular (LV) structure and function in young… (More)

BACKGROUND Cellular cardiomyoplasty has been proposed as an alternative strategy for augmenting the function of diseased… (More)

BACKGROUND Recent studies indicate that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after the administration of contrast material can be… (More)

BACKGROUND Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically transmitted disease and an important cause of morbidity and sudden… (More)

An eight-electrode conductance catheter previously developed by us and used to determine stroke volume in dogs was applied in… (More)

In order to investigate the possibility of regional variation of ventricular structure, 25 normal postmortem human hearts were… (More)

The relation of minor and major axes of the left ventricle was determined in 100 left ventriculograms performed in the right… (More)

It is generally recognized that chronic left ventricular (LV) pressure overload results primarily in wall thickening and… (More)