Background/aim Frequent premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) have historically been regarded as benign in structurally ...

Ventricular tachycardia arises from an abnormal electrical focus or circuit in the myocardium of the ventricle and is usually manifested as a tachyarrhythmia with a wide QRS complex on ...

A 35-year-old woman of Hispanic descent was evaluated at our institution for progressive signs and symptoms of heart failure. The patient was asymptomatic until age 23 years, when she began to ...

The distinctive histopathological feature of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is the loss of right ventricular myocardium and the substitution of fibrous and fatty tissue. Panel ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes hypertrophy ...

Left ventricular noncompaction is characterized by deep trabeculations in the LV endocardium in association with left ventricular hypertrophy, dilation or hypertrophy/dilation. Noncompaction of the ...

June 17, 2003 - Progressive left ventricular (LV) remodeling and poor LV function following myocardial infarction (MI) are associated with increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias, according to the ...

Background: Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are sometimes used by power athletes to improve performance by increasing muscle mass and strength. Recent bioptical data have shown that in athletes ...

Although premature ventricular beats (PVBs) in young people and athletes are usually benign, they may rarely mark underlying heart disease and risk of sudden cardiac death during sport. This review ...

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy was first reported as the partial replacement of the right ventricular myocardium by fat or fibrous tissue. In 1965, researchers described the ...