When left atrial enlargement occurs, it takes longer for cardiac action potentials to travel through the atrial myocardium; thus, the P wave also lengthens. Therefore, the criteria for diagnosing ...

This is referred to as p-pulmonale since lung disease can cause severe right heart strain and right atrial enlargement. Thus, the P wave height becomes larger. The ECG criteria for diagnosing ...

ECG plays an important role in detection of several stroke risk factors/predictors including atrial fibrillation and left ventricular hypertrophy; both are components of the Framingham Stroke Risk ...

Background: Atrial function is an integral part of cardiac function that is often neglected. The presence of left ventricule hypertrophy (LVH) due to arterial hypertension may impair atrial function.

P area and signal-averaged P wave late atrial potential are strong predictors of AF incidence and possibly of stroke incidence. ECG left ventricular hypertrophy is strongly associated with stroke ...