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Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

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Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Systems

Part of the book series: Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals ((LABORATORY))

Abstract

Long-lasting cardiac overload in man as well as in experimental animals leads to an increase in heart weight (or better: heart weight/body weight ratio). Cardiac hypertrophy can result from increased physiologic activity (“physiologic hypertrophy”) or from disease states (“pathologic hypertrophy”). While physiologic hypertrophy may regress without major problems after discontinuation of exercise, pathologic hypertrophy, in a late stage, may progress into irreversible heart failure and cardiac decompensation.

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  1. Klaus-U. Thiedemann
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  1. Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, ILSI Research Foundation, 1126 Sixteenth Street, N.W., 20036, Washington D.C., USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Medizinische Hochschule Honnover, Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, W-3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

  3. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, 01772, Southborough, MA, USA

    Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

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Thiedemann, KU. (1991). Left Ventricular Hypertrophy. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Systems. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76533-9_8

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