The diagram outlines the heart’s short-term and long-term adaptive responses to increased afterload, emphasizing the potential for right ventricular dilatation and the associated negative outcomes on ...

Preoperatively, the LV of the parasternal four-chambered heart was globularly dilated, and the septum was significantly convex towards the right ventricle ... postoperative peak time strain bull's-eye ...

Results of the VANISH-2 trial, building on prior research, further upheld superiority of catheter ablation over ...

A medical team at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AUMC) in the Netherlands completed the first-in-human ventricular ...

An out-of-sync electrical system in the heart can cause extra beats called PVCs. They are usually benign, but a Bucks County man learned they can also be a sign of heart failure.

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary ...

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found that teens with elevated blood sugar levels were significantly more likely to have an enlarged heart. The condition, called ventricular ...

Women can experience heart attack symptoms that are different ... You were born with any type of congenital anomalies, such as a ventricular septal defect. You’re considering pregnancy.

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart beat (with three or more consecutive heart beats at least 100 beats per minute) that originates from one of the ventricles in the heart.

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The steady beating of your heart relies on the uninterrupted flow of electrical energy starting in the upper chambers (atria) and moving down to the lower chambers (ventricles) of your heart.