Another active area of research in the laboratory focuses on unraveling the mechanisms behind maladaptive, or pathological, and adaptive, or physiological, cardiac hypertrophy. In response to certain ...

Cardiac hypertrophy can be classified into two categories: physiological and pathological. Physiological hypertrophy is reversible, leads to normal or enhanced cardiac function, and typically occurs ...

The presence of left ventricule hypertrophy (LVH) due to arterial hypertension ... is present in patients with either physiological or pathological LVH, using two-dimensional strain rate imaging (2D ...

Although such changes are generally considered to be reversible and benign, they may result in a diagnostic overlap with pathological ... physiological conditioning. Voltage criteria for LV ...

Aim Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when ... In conclusion, marked repolarisation changes, ST depression, pathological Q waves and multiple ventricular ...

The changes with age occur in everyone but not necessarily at the same rate, therefore accounting for the difference seen in some people between chronologic age and physiologic age. The changes in ...