Cardiac Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is usually considered to be a compen­ satory adjustment of heart muscle to an inreased work load. LVH develops in the course of valvular or congenital heart disease, or when part of the myocardium is damaged by long-standing ischemia or infarction. In the hypertrophied heart the muscle fibers increase in size, not in number. The fibers are found to contain a larg...