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2. What Causes an Enlarged Heart? - AOL

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   An enlarged heart, medically known as cardiomegaly, occurs when parts of the heart thicken or become too big. In some cases, people are born with this condition, but heart disease, diabetes, and ...

3. Cardiomegaly - Wikipedia

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   Cardiomegaly (sometimes megacardia or megalocardia) is a medical condition in which the heart becomes enlarged. It is more commonly referred to simply as "having an enlarged heart ". It is usually the result of underlying conditions that make the heart work harder, such as obesity, heart valve disease, high blood pressure (hypertension), and ...

4. Athletic heart syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Bradycardia is a slower than normal heartbeat, at around 40–60 beats per minute. Cardiomegaly is the state of an enlarged heart, and cardiac hypertrophy the thickening of the muscular wall of the heart, specifically the left ventricle, which pumps oxygenated blood to the aorta. Especially during an intensive workout, more blood and oxygen are ...

5. Dilated cardiomyopathy - Wikipedia

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   Five-year survival rate ~50% [9] Frequency. 1 in 2500 [9] Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a condition in which the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood effectively. [3] Symptoms vary from none to feeling tired, leg swelling, and shortness of breath. [2] It may also result in chest pain or fainting. [2]

6. These Are 4 of the Most Common Complications of Hypertrophic ...

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   Another common HCM complication is heart failure, a broad term that means your heart isn’t able to pump enough blood out into your circulation to properly oxygenate the rest of your body. The ...

7. Ventricular hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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   Ventricular hypertrophy (VH) is thickening of the walls of a ventricle (lower chamber) of the heart. [1][better source needed] Although left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is more common, right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), as well as concurrent hypertrophy of both ventricles can also occur. Ventricular hypertrophy can result from a variety of ...

8. Right ventricular hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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   Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) is a condition defined by an abnormal enlargement of the cardiac muscle surrounding the right ventricle. The right ventricle is one of the four chambers of the heart. It is located towards the right lower chamber of the heart and it receives Deoxygenated blood from the right upper chamber (right atrium) and ...

9. Left ventricular hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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   Diagnostic method. Echocardiography, cardiovascular MRI [1] Differential diagnosis. Athletic heart syndrome. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is thickening of the heart muscle of the left ventricle of the heart, that is, left-sided ventricular hypertrophy and resulting increased left ventricular mass.