Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this cross-sectional study utilizing electrocardiography (ECG) and 2D echocardiography, Munje and colleagues ...

WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...

Echocardiographic studies in population-based samples or hypertensive cohorts show that a number of metabolic risk factors and the full expression of MS are associated with increased LV mass and LVH ...

"This study showed that RV function, including RV strain, decreases over time despite preserved LV ejection fraction, and is associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes. RV function may be more ...

Background In athletes, ECG changes from physiological cardiac remodelling are common but can overlap with findings from a pathological disorder. We compared ECG findings in a group of elite high ...

Researchers have developed a novel rat model that closely replicates the pathological features and physiological changes associated with human chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-associated ...

ALTHOUGH upper-airway obstruction of varying degrees is a common phenomenon in children, very few cases of cor pulmonale in association with hypertrophied adenoids or tonsils have been reported. 1–3 ...