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 ...