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The hypertrophied heart typically exhibits various changes in architecture as well as in histology, according to the cause and stage of hypertrophy. The macroscopic and histologic changes in hypertrophied hearts are briefly described. The various dimensions of the autopsied hearts, width of myocytes, contents of myocytes, and extent of fibrosis were compared between one group of patients who seemed to have hypertrophied hearts secondary to arterial hypertension in adaptive growth or a prolonged state of successful adaptation, and a second group of patients who appeared to have almost normal hearts. There were significant differences in heart weight, the length of the inflow portion of the left ventricle, the wall thickness of the left ventricle and interventricular septum, the width of myocytes, and the extent of fibrosis.
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Imakita, M., Yutani, C. (1994). Morphology of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in the Human. In: Hori, M., Maruyama, Y., Reneman, R.S. (eds) Cardiac Adaptation and Failure. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67014-8_18
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